The director of Gaofu CDC is from Yingxian County, Shanxi Province. Gao Fu, an academician of China Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Academy of Developing Countries and a foreign academician of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, is a native of Yingxian County, Shanxi Province. He graduated from Oxford University and is currently the director of China CDC.

Mainly engaged in cross-host transmission of pathogenic microorganisms, infection mechanism and host cell immunity, public health policy and global health strategy. He has won the Basic Medicine Award of the Third World Academy of Sciences, the Japanese Foreign Minister's Commendation Award, the Russian Gamalier Medal, and the century-old outstanding China scholar of the University of Hong Kong in China, and has published more than 500 papers in SCI international journals.