Prof. Hengyun Ma received his B.S. degree from Shandong Agricultural University in 1982 and his Ph.D. degrees from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2000 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a doctoral supervisor at the School of Economics and Management, Henan Agricultural University, and a special professor in Henan Province. In July 2012, he was named the Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education. His main research interests include agricultural economic theory and policy, resource and environmental economics, rural revitalization theory and practice, climate change and agricultural adaptation, and applied econometric methods.