Li Yongshan received his BS degree in Agronomy in 1985 and a Master’s degree in Crop Cultivation and Tillage in 1988 from Shanxi Agricultural University. He earned his PhD in Utilization Science of Agricultural Resources from Zhejiang University in 2006. He served as a professor at the Cotton Research Institute, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences from 1988 to 2019. In 2011, he spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of Kentucky (USA), and in 2019, he was a Senior Visiting Scholar at Charles Sturt University (Australia) for three months. Since 2020, he has been working at the Cotton Research Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, as a professor and director of the Department of Resource and Environment. Dr. Li has published more than 100 papers in various academic journals. His primary research focuses on plant nutrition management and soil ecology.