Professor HUANG Guowen was a professor of Functional Linguistics during 1996-2016 at Sun Yat-sen University, and he is now a professor of Functional Linguistics and Ecolinguistics and is also Dean of the School of Foreign Studies and Director of Centre for Ecolinguistics at South China Agricultural University, P.R. China.  He is the China Regional Representative of the International Ecolinguistics Association, and he was Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association from 2011 to 2014. He was educated in Britain and received two PhD degrees from two British universities (1992: Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh; 1996, Functional Linguistics, Cardiff). His main research interests include systemic functional linguistics, ecolinguistics, discourse analysis and translation studies. Email: flshgw@scau.edu.cn.