Chunyao Zhu is currently studying landscape architecture at Jilin Agricultural University under the supervision of Prof. Xiaogang Sun. Her research interests are landscape plants and ecological restoration. She has been awarded the school scholarship many times. She participated in the provincial research project ‘Research on the key technology of selecting and breeding excellent Hosta lines and factory production' and published the paper ‘Establishment and optimization of tissue culture systems of four Hosta varieties’ as the first author.