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Dr. MU Zhilin is a Deputy Director in General Office of Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee (EPRCC) of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China. He is also serving as a Research Fellow in Research Center of Industrial Ecology & Sustainability at the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from May 2015. His research interests mainly focus on the Legislation of Environment Protection and Resources Conservation.

He received his Doctor's degree in Environment and Resources Law from Law School of Renmin University of China in 2014. As a senior officer, he has been working at EPRCC for more than ten years and participated in some important legislative work such as Environmental Protection Law, Renewable Energy Law, Offshore Islands Protection Law, Circular Economy Promotion Law. With regarding to academic records, Dr. Mu has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in renowned journals as Sustainability, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, China Population Resources and Environment, Political and Law, etc. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Humboldt University of Berlin during 2013-2014, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.