Shuilian Gao is an professor, dean of the School of Science and Technology of Tea Industry, Anxi College of Tea Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Agronomy and PhD in Management from the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona in the United States between 2019 and 2020, and engaged in COVID-19 vaccine research. His main research interest is tea garden ecology, with a major focus on the effects of tea plant nutrition, soil improvement, and ecological control of tea quality and tea healthy components.