According to news from the official website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on April 28, the State Council appointed Dou Xiankang as the director of the Ninth National Natural Science Foundation of China; appointed Lu Jianhua, Zhang Xuemin, Jiang Song, Yu Jihong (female), Han Yu, and Lan Yujie as the ninth Deputy Director of the Ninth National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Dou Xiankang became the president of Wuhan University in December 2016, secretary of the leading party group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China on November 11, 2022, and director and secretary of the leading party group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China on April 28, 2023.

According to the official website of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Dou Xiankang, male, Han nationality, born in 1966, is from Si County, Anhui Province, and a member of the Communist Party of China. Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor, doctor of science. Alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, representative of the 13th National People's Congress, and chairman of the 10th Hubei Provincial Association for Science and Technology. He is currently Secretary of the Leading Party Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Mainly engaged in comprehensive research on the theory, observation and experiment of the middle and upper atmosphere. Over the years, he has insisted on the frontier issues of the discipline and independently developed a series of lidar observation systems. Among them, the vehicle-mounted wind measurement lidar system has filled the gap in this field in China, and the technical level has reached International leading level; for the first time in the world, the quantum lidar based on upconversion technology has been successfully developed, creating a new lidar detection system; based on the pioneering work on observation equipment, in the fields of atmospheric dynamics and photochemistry in the mesotope The research has achieved systematic and innovative results.