Prof. Baijing Qiu is a professor at the Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Engineering, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Jiangsu University, and the director of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. He graduated from Hunan Agricultural College in 1982 with a major in agricultural machinery design and manufacturing and obtained a master's degree in agricultural machinery design and manufacturing from Jiangsu Institute of Technology in June 1985 and a doctorate in 1992. From 1982 to 1994, he worked at Jiangsu Institute of Technology, and he worked at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology from 1994 to 2000. Since 2000, he has worked at Jiangsu University, successively serving as a professor at the Agricultural Engineering Research Institute, the director of the Mechanical Design Department, a professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, an assistant to the dean, a professor at the Agricultural Engineering Research Institute, and a professor. During the period from 2008 to 2009, he served as a visiting professor at the Nancy Research Center of the French National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His research areas include ground and aerial plant protection machinery, modern design and test technology of agricultural machinery, and agricultural environment and plant protection equipment and technology.