Prof. Dr. Yong Zhou received his Ph.D. in Agriculture from Huazhong Agricultural University in 1997. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in the UK and later as a visiting professor at Kiel University in Germany. In 2004, he joined the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Central China Normal University as a professor and Ph.D. supervisor. His research topics include soil geography and classification, soil remote sensing, arable land quality, food security, and natural resource surveys and evaluation.