On 26 Feb., 2014, Prof. Zhihong Hu from WIV was awarded Ten Thousand Talent Program: Millions of Leading Engineering Talents authorized by Organization Department, Communist Party of China Central Committee, just as Prof. Yanyi Wang, who won Ten Thousand Talent Program: Top-notch Young Talents of Organization Department, Communist Party of China Central Committee in July,2013.Ten Thousand Talent Program, which provides high-caliber talents with special R&D funds and favored policies, especially for those making contributions to strategic emerging industries, basic research areas, and national key research areas, enjoys a high reputation in China.Focusing on systematic virology, including virus classification and evolution, functional genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, population genetics, viral-host interactions as well as synthetic biology, Prof. Zhihong Hu is a principle investigator of the projects funded by NSFC (the National Science Foundation of China) and MOST (the Ministry of Science and Technology) , publishing over 130 research papers, including 80 SCI-indexed articles, 13 monographs (or chapters), and 11 authorized patents.