He is a senior research fellow emeritus at China's Institute of Philosophy, and chair of the Academic Committee at the Centre for Bioethics at Peking Union Medical College.
[2] Qiu published a paper in 2002 arguing for the recognition in China of animal rights, and introducing the idea of speciesism.
His paper was criticized by Zhao Nanyuan, a professor at Tsinghua University, who wrote that animal rights arguments are foreign ideas and are "anti-humanity.
"[3] Qiu was awarded the 2009 UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science[1] and he shared the Hastings Center's Henry Knowles Beecher Award with Solomon R. Benatar in 2011.
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