[2] By the end of 2017, the IOA counts more than 700 researchers[3] focusing on the study of basic and applied acoustics, in the following fields:[4] Seven academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been elected from the IOA, they were/are: Wang Dezhao, Ma Dayou, Ying Chongfu, Zhang Renhe [zh], Hou Chaohuan, Li Qihu, Wang Chenghao.
[5] In 2012, the ASC co-hosted with the Acoustical Society of America a joint meeting in Hong Kong.
[6] In 2014, the IOA hosted the International Congress on Sound and Vibration in Beijing.
[8] And according to the IOA official web site, it will co-host with the ASC an International Congress on Ultrasonics in 2021.
[9] The IOA publishes 7 academic journals, among others, Acta Acustica (incl.