Dr. Lang Gong is an associate professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University. He is currently the deputy director of the African Swine Fever Prevention and Control Technology Center of South China Agricultural University. He graduated from the School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University as a doctoral student. He mainly engages in molecular epidemiology and pathogenic mechanism research on porcine coronavirus and African swine fever. He has won the 2019 China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Society Swine Enteric Disease Research Progress Award.