Jianning He received his B.Sc. from Northwest A&F University in 2007, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2010 and 2013, respectively. From 2013 to 2019, he was a lecturer at Qingdao Agricultural University. Since 2018, he has been an Associate Professor at Qingdao Agricultural University. His research interests include the mechanism of cashmere wool traits, mining and functional verification of high-quality genes for sheep growth and development and meat quality traits, and the innovative use of animal genetic resources and germplasm.