Dr. Xinzhong Du is a research fellow at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He completed his PhD studies in ecology at the Ecological Environment Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. He has chaired the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Project—“Response Mechanisms of Critical Source Areas and Rainfall Events in Watershed Phosphorus Loss Dynamics”. He is mainly engaged in research work on the modeling and assessment of agricultural surface pollution in watersheds. His research interests include the development and application of watershed surface pollution and water quality models; watershed surface pollution monitoring and water quality impact assessment; and agro-ecosystem and watershed-scale biogeochemical cycling processes and modeling.