Haofu Dai is a Professor at the Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. He is the leader of the research group of Li medicine resources and natural products and an expert who enjoys the special allowance of the State Council (China). He has applied for 55 invention patents, of which 35 have been authorized; formulated 4 local standards in Hainan Province; 5 new plant varieties in Hainan Province have been approved. He was rated as an outstanding expert with outstanding contributions in Hainan Province and a leading talent of 100 people in Guizhou Province. He received a BS from Jiangxi Normal University in 1996 and a PhD from Kunming Institute of Botany in 2001. He worked as a Postdoctoral at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf from 2002 to 2003. His main research interests are isolation, structural elucidation, and the modification of bioactive secondary metabolites from Li folk medicine.