Prof. Ping Yan is the Professor and Deputy Director at the Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China. She earned her PhD from the Gansu Agricultural University in 2007. She is mainly engaged in animal genetics, breeding, and reproduction. She won the National Science and Technology Progress Award and provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards. She is the chief editor of 10 books, including “Chinese Yak”.