Changyu Shao serves as the director of the Chinese Civil Engineering Society, and the deputy director of the bridge and structure branch. He had won several national science and technology progress awards and national engineering design master awards of China. He has been engaged in bridge engineering design and research for nearly 40 years. He has presided over the design of highway bridges such as Shanghai East Sea Bridge, Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Sea-Crossing Bridge, and Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge. He has presided over the program research and preliminary design of high-speed railway bridges such as Nanjing Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge and Wuhan Tianxingzhou Highway-Railway Bridge. He has served as the general director of design and construction consultation for the main project of Guangdong Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the general director of design consultation for the bridges of Shenzhen—Zhongshan link. His achievements are innovative and pioneering.