Yulong Yin received his MSc in Animal Nutrition from the Huazhong Agricultural University in 1982, and his PhD in Animal Nutrition from the Queen's University of Belfast in 1997. He has been a trainee researcher, assistant researcher, and associate researcher at the Institute of Subtropical Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1978, and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2013. He was appointed as the vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Association of Science and Technology in 2016. He has been engaged in the research of healthy livestock and poultry breeding and environmental control for a long time and has successively presided over and completed more than 30 scientific research projects in the academy, province, country, and international cooperation. His research topics mainly include animal nutrition, swine, pig nutrition, and pig diet.