Professor Wei is currently the Executive Deputy Director of the Endangered Species Scientific Commission of the People’s Republic of China (Scientific Authority of CITES in China), Deputy Chairman and Secretary-General of the China Zoological Society, and Chairman of the Mammal Branch, China Zoological Society. He is mainly engaged in the conservation biology research of endangered animals, such as giant panda and red panda. He initiated the subdisciplines of“Conservation Evolutionary Biology” and “Conservation Metagenomics”.