Zhong Dalai, male, Han nationality, is a native of Qingdao, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Beijing College of Geoscience in 1954 and received an assistant doctoral degree from the Leningrad Mining College of the Soviet Union in 1963. He was a researcher at the Geology Geophysics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was elected academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Zhong is an expert on structural geology and continental kinetics, studying the relationship between the movement of deep structural substances and crustal evolution.