Meng Ke, a professor of Tsinghua University, has been included in the 2020 Young Scientists community of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in late May for his research on public policy on the aging population and declining fertility. The project started in 2008 to engage rising-star researchers.

Meng is also a principal investigator in the project Fundamentals of Veteran Affairs initiated by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs. A graduate from the University of Oxford, he has been working as an associate professor at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University since 2015.

Each year the WEF selects a group of extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 for their contributions to advancing the frontiers of science and passion for integrating scientific knowledge into society for the public good.

Six Chinese scientists are among this year's 25 scientists. Five of them are from some of China's most prestigious universities.