Piqi ZHANG , male, Senior Engineer (Researcher level), serves as the Director of the Microbial Resource Development and Utilization Innovation Research Center, Institute of Microbiology, Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences. He has been engaged in edible fungus research for 30 years and holds concurrent academic positions such as a specialist of Heilongjiang Edible Fungi Industry Technology System and executive director of the Black Fungus Branch of China Edible Fungi Association. Since 2014, he has served as a provincial science and technology commissioner, providing technical services in multiple counties in Heilongjiang. He has promoted key technologies such as sea-buckthorn black fungus cultivation and realized industrial transformation. His technical promotion has brought remarkable economic benefits to local edible fungus industries, and his expert team was honored as a National Advanced Team for Targeted Poverty Alleviation in 2017. He has long been committed to popularizing cultivation techniques, conducting centralized training and field guidance to improve farmers’ technical capabilities and enhance regional resistance against abnormal climatic risks in cold regions.