Prof. Hao Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Agriculture of Yangzhou University. From 2002 to 2006, he studied at Qingdao Agricultural University and obtained a bachelor's degree in agriculture. In 2011, he received a doctorate in agronomy from Yangzhou University. After graduating with a doctorate in 2011, he began to work at Yangzhou University. He is the deputy secretary-general of the Jiangsu Plant Physiology Society, a member of the Youth Editorial Board of "The Journal of Integrative Agriculture" and an editorial board member of "The Farming System". He has presided over several national, provincial, and ministerial projects, including national key R&D program projects, sub-projects of the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973 Program), the National Natural Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education's Doctoral New Teacher Fund, and major natural science research projects of Jiangsu universities. His research directions are the theory of crop yield and quality formation and its application, crop physiological ecology, and crop yield and quality theory.