Organizer: Ms. Shan Huachun. After her father, Shan Yong, a senior geological engineer, donated nearly 50,000 fossils of 18 to the Anhui Provincial People's Government and Liuzhou Municipal Government, she also donated all the original funds in her own name and donated a batch of precious fossil specimens collected by herself to the public welfare undertakings of Chinese fossils and geological environment protection. At the same time, she also devoted all her experience and energy to the public welfare undertakings of paleontological fossil protection in China.

Expert Initiative: In view of the increasingly serious problem of poaching and smuggling of paleontological fossils in China, more than 20 experts and academicians in the field of paleontology jointly signed an initiative to establish the China Paleontological Fossil Protection Foundation, strengthen the protection of paleontological fossils and geological environment, and guide domestic and foreign funds to participate in promoting this great public welfare undertaking.

Sponsor: In 2005, the original sponsor, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology of China Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Geological Environment Monitoring of China jointly initiated the establishment of the China Paleontological Fossil Protection Foundation, which was jointly initiated by former experts.