Baige ZHAO, Chair of Advisory Committee of RDI and Head of the Expert Group of the Euro-China Green & Smart Cities of NDRC. She has been dedicated to effective implementation of the BRI, offering advice to the CCCPC and the State Council of the P.R.C, participating in the establishment of the BRI platforms co-organized by the government, think tanks and enterprises, which fulfill an important role for China to enter the new globalization. She has been actively involved in promoting international exchanges between China and foreign countries and pushing forward the innovation of exchanges and cooperation mode between China and Europe in green and smart cities to find a new direction for urban development. In 2019, she was granted "Hilal-ilmtiaz" Pakistan Civil Award by Pakistan Government.

ZHAO served as Chair of China-U.K. Parliamentary Exchange Mechanism, Executive Vice Chair of China-South Africa Parliamentary Exchange Mechanism, and Head of the NPC to the Eight European Countries and the Fifteen African Countries Bilateral Friendship Group during her tenure of Member of the NPC Standing Committee and Vice Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. By communication with the MPs of other countries, she committed herself to the exchanges with the parliaments of these countries, and in 2015 she was elected Chair of the Committee for Economic Affairs, Asian Parliamentary Assembly.

ZHAO has participated actively in the international humanitarian activities. In 2011-2014, she was Standing Vice Chair of the Red Cross Society of China. She was elected as Vice Chair of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in 2013, in charge of humanitarian affairs in Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, actively dealing with international humanitarian crisis, and carrying out conflict and disaster management. She successfully organized a series of rescue operations in such disasters as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, refugees in Northern Burma and Yaan Earthquake in Sichuan Province, China.

ZHAO is the Member of the National Climate Change Expert Committee. She participated and delivered speeches at UN Climate Change Conferences respectively at Copenhagen in 2009 and Durban in 2011. Additionally, she has actively participated in discovering, cultivating and promoting enterprises with social responsibilities, capabilities and a strong sense of serving the country and people to make efforts for sustainable development and dealing with climate change.

ZHAO has actively promoted the programs in population and development fields. In 2003-2011, she was Vice Minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, concurrently as Chair of International Council on Management of Population Program, Asia-Pacific Vice Chair of World Family Organization, and held other posts. Besides, she took an active part in formulation of national population development strategy and carried forward the population reform and improvement of family planning policy. She succeeded in getting supports from the international community for the Chinese population project, making contributions to the transformation of China's population policy.

ZHAO has an important influence in the field of medicine. In 1988, she got a Doctoral Degree in Bio-medicine from Cambridge University. In 1989-1994, ZHAO was Director of the Center of Planned Parenthood Research of Shanghai Academy of Sciences, and concurrently as Director of WHO Chinese Coordination Center. During that period, she organized  a series of new drugs R&D. In 1994-1998, ZHAO, as Director of the U.S. Center for life Science and Technology Development affiliated with the State Science & Technology Commission of China, established the overseas expert committee, and promoted the modernization of TCM projects through international cooperation, financing, registration and other work, helping Chinese pharmaceutical enterprises to access the international market.