Xiaohou Shao, a professor at the College of Agricultural Science and Engineering at Hohai University. He obtained his PhD in crop nutrition and fertilization at Nanjing Agricultural University, and has won 11 provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards and more than 130 invention patents, and presided over more than 80 projects, including 863 research projects, national science and technology support projects and National Natural Science Foundation projects. Besides, he has published more than 240 papers in various, and serves as the director of Facility Agriculture Professional Committee of Jiangsu Agricultural Engineering Society, the member of Saline Alkali Land Improvement Professional Committee of China Soil Society, and the director of Jiangsu Soil Society and the member of American Agricultural and Bioengineering Association. He has long been engaged in research on agricultural water conservation, the coupling of water, fertilizer and microorganisms, etc. Moreover, his research interests include the mechanism of water conservation and drought resistance in crops, the improvement of saline-alkali land, the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution, and the soil ecological restoration and agricultural bio-environmental engineering.