Prof. Liangyi Xue is a Professor at the College of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University. He is also the Executive Director of the Zhejiang Cell Biology Society and is mainly engaged in aquatic biotechnology research. He received his BS in Zoology from Shandong University (1983) and his MSc and PhD from Zhejiang University. He has worked as a visiting researcher at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and the Center for Marine Biotechnology at the University of Maryland. He has won honorary titles such as a Young and Middle-Aged Academic Leader of Zhejiang Province, the Xu Wangyue Special Award of Ningbo University, the First Class Award of Wing Wah Plan for Rewarding Scholars Ningbo University, and an Outstanding Teacher Training Target of Ningbo City. His main research area is the development and utilization of economic fish genetic resources. In recent years, he has focused on studying the function and regulation of fish growth-related genes.