Jie Li, PhD, is an associate professor at Forestry College, Gansu Agricultural University. He graduated from the Forestry College of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in agronomy and engineering; graduated from the Forestry College of Gansu Agricultural University in 2008 with a master's degree in agronomy; graduated from the Grassland College of Gansu Agricultural University in 2015 with a doctorate in agronomy; and was sponsored by the China Scholarship Council as a visiting scholar in New Zealand in 2017. He is one of the first batch of science and technology commissioners in Gansu Province, a special researcher of the Policy Research Office of the Gansu Provincial Government, and a member of the expert group of the China Rural Development Foundation. He has been engaged in the research and promotion of special economic forest tree species such as wolfberry, pepper, and walnut for a long time, which has produced good economic and social benefits. He has presided over and participated in more than 20 provincial and ministerial projects related to economic forests, obtained two invention patents, published more than 30 papers, and won the Gansu Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award three times and the prefecture-level science and technology progress award once.