Weilun Yin is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He obtained a master’s degree in plant physiology from Beijing Forestry University in 1981. From 1981 to 1993, he served as deputy director, lecturer, and associate professor of the Physiology Teaching and Research Office of Beijing Forestry University. From 1993 to 2010, he served as vice president, executive vice president, president, dean of the graduate school, professor, and doctoral supervisor of Beijing Forestry University. In December 2005, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 2010, he was elected as the director of the Department of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 2012, he was elected as the vice chairman of the Beijing Association for Science and Technology. He is editor-in-chief of “The Journal of Beijing Forestry University”, editorial board member and deputy editor-in-chief of “Forestry Science”, and editor-in-chief of “Chinese Forestry (English Edition)”. He hosted or participated in more than 40 national research projects from the Sixth Five-Year Plan to the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, “863”, “973”, “948”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and provincial- and ministerial-level key projects. He mainly engaged in research on arboriculture physiology, plant stress resistance physiology and molecular mechanisms, and plant growth and development regulation mechanisms.