Yu Anlin promoted the unification of nine associations representing people from East China's Zhejiang province based in Russia, to establish the Russian Zhejiang Overseas Chinese Federation.
Chen Jianfei and Chen Shengyong, a pair of brothers born and raised in an underdeveloped village in Yongjia county, Zhejiang province, were both included in the World's Top 2% Scientists, a list published by Stanford University in May.