Haiyan Yang graduated from Nanjing Normal University with a doctorate in biology; is now working as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences of Jiangsu Province (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen); is mainly interested in blueberry, blackberry, and other small-berry cultivation technology and physiological and biochemical research; and has published more than 10 high-level papers.