Xunping Jiang, PhD, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Huazhong Agricultural University. He is a post-expert in the mutton sheep industry technology system and the director of the genetic improvement laboratory. He obtained a master’s degree and a doctorate in animal genetics, breeding and reproduction from Sichuan Agricultural University and Nanjing Agricultural University in 1995 and 2001, respectively. In 2003, he completed his postdoctoral study in animal husbandry and joined Huazhong Agricultural University to teach. He has studied in and visited Denmark, the United States and other countries. He has served as a director of the Animal Reproduction Society, the Agricultural Information Technology Society and the Sheep Breeding Society; the chief genetics and breeding scientist of Tangrenshen Group (2017); a researcher at the Biotechnology Center of Hainan University; and the general manager of the elite pig farm of the National Livestock Engineering Technology Research Center. His research interests include (1) animal reproductive physiology and new technology of animal reproduction and breeding; (2) gene function of the animal reproductive axis; and (3) bioinformatics—the design and implementation of agricultural expert system—using computational biology approaches to assist gene function research.