Prof. Xinhua Zhao is a professor and vice dean of the College of Agriculture at the Shenyang Agricultural University. He completed his Master’s studies in crop cultivation and farming at Shenyang Agricultural University and his PhD studies in agriculture at Kyungpook National University. He is also the Deputy Director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province. He is mainly engaged in research on peanut breeding and high-yield and high-efficiency cultivation technology, crop stress physiology, etc., and his research directions are peanut biology and genetic improvement, and crop stress physiology.