Dr. Fan Yang received his Bachelor's degree in Agronomy from the College of Forestry at Gansu Agricultural University between September 2005 and September 2009. He then went on to complete a Master’s degree in Agronomy at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences between September 2009 and September 2012, specialising in Soil Conservation and Desertification Control. From September 2018 to the present day, he has been conducting his PhD studies in atmospheric physics and atmospheric environment at the College of Atmospheric Sciences at Lanzhou University. His research interests include land gas fluxes in desert regions, the desert carbon sequestration mechanism, and desertification control for carbon sinks.