Mingfang Qian is the deputy director of the Department of Materials Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology. She is a Class C high-level talent (leading talent) in Heilongjiang Province and an editorial board member of the international SCI journals "Magnetochemistry," "Frontiers in Materials," "International Journal of Metallurgy and Metal Physics," and a youth editorial board member of "Material Development and Application" and "Journal of Welding." She has successively presided over the National Natural Science Youth, the National Key R&D Program, the sub-projects of the National Ministry's Key Basic Research Project, the China Postdoctoral Special Funding, the Heilongjiang Province Postdoctoral Special Funding, the China Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Support Project, the Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, the Harbin Institute of Technology Youth Outstanding Project, the Harbin Institute of Technology Research Star Project, etc. As a major participant, she participated in the National Key R&D Program, the Guangdong Provincial Key Field R&D Program, the Heilongjiang Provincial Fund Team Project, various projects of national ministries and commissions, and the third phase of the lunar exploration project. The lunar surface sampling robotic arm developed by the second finisher completed the Chang'e 5 lunar surface sampling mission in December 2020 and was successfully applied.