Yin Yulong, Chief Technical Advisor of Tanke, is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Doctoral and Postdoctoral Supervisor. He studied and worked at the Institute of Animal Nutrition of the German National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1985-1987), Queen's University Belfast, UK, and the University of Guelph, Canada (1994-1999), earning a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Queen's University Belfast.

He currently holds several key positions, including Honorary Vice Chairman of the Ministry of Agriculture's Animal Nutrition Laboratory Group, Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Livestock and Poultry Pollution Control and Resource Utilization Technology, Chairman of the Chinese Association of Agricultural Science Societies' Trace Elements and Food Chain Branch, Vice Chairman of the National New Feed Evaluation Committee, Vice President of the China Feed Industry Association, Chairman of the National Pig Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, Vice Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Association, and Standing Committee Member of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Prof. Yin has received numerous honors, such as the National May 1st Labor Medal, Outstanding Member of the Jiusan Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Award for Innovative Culture, and Outstanding Communist Party Member.

He has long been engaged in research on healthy breeding of livestock and poultry and environmental control, having led over 30 scientific research projects at institutional, provincial, national, and international levels. His remarkable achievements include pioneering green breeding technologies, efficient utilization of unconventional feed materials, and waste reduction in breeding processes. Under his leadership, his team has published more than 300 SCI-indexed papers, cited over 9,000 times (including over 6,000 citations in top-tier international journals such as Science, Nature, Cell, and PNAS), achieving an H-index of 52. He was selected as a Global Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters in 2014 and 2015 and received the Chinese Citation Laureate Award. He has also edited eight Chinese and English academic monographs.

As the primary contributor, he has received three National Science and Technology Progress Awards and one National Natural Science Award. In 2017, he was awarded the Hunan Provincial Highest Science and Technology Award and named "Chinese Science Person of the Year." In 2014, he received the World Animal Nutrition Award at the World Nutrition Forum in Munich, Germany, and in 2018, the Asia-Pacific Nutrition Award (APNA) at the 14th International Symposium on Digestive Physiology of Pigs in Brisbane, Australia.

Chief Project Technical Expert of Tanke; Ph.D. in Engineering (Applied Chemistry), Professor, Master's Supervisor; Dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering; Guest Researcher at the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director of the Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for New Feed Additive Trace Elements; Director of the Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology R&D Center for Feed Mineral Element Complexes.

Main Research Directions:
1.Research on food and feed additives (including trace element amino acid complexes, antioxidants, antimicrobial agents, etc.).
2.Development of water treatment chemicals, focusing on highly efficient and safe water treatment coagulants (including polymeric flocculants and inorganic polymers, etc.).

He has led Principal Investigator for nearly ten national, provincial, municipal, and district-level research projects, including:
1.National Torch Program Project: "Development and Industrialized Application of Feed Organic Trace Elements Synthesized by Solid-Phase Method at Room Temperature."
2.CAS-Guangdong Strategic Cooperation Project: "Research and Development of Key Technologies for Safe Pork Production Industrialization: Antibiotic-Free Pig Farming Model and Related Products."
3.Guangzhou Municipal Agricultural Special Funds Project: "Research and Development of Natural Plant Antimicrobial Agent Functional Feed Additives."
4.Guangzhou Huadu District Science and Technology Project: "Application Research of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Intensive Aquaculture."

Awards and Honors:
2011: Guangzhou Huadu District Patent Gold Award (Primary Contributor)
2014: Third Prize of Guangzhou Science and Technology Progress Award (Primary Contributor)
2016: Second Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (Primary Contributor)

Publications and Patents:
1.Published over ten research papers in journals such as Feed Industry, Guangdong Feed, and Feed Review.
2.Contributed to the monographs Swine Amino Acid Nutrition and Metabolism and Piglet Nutrition.
3.Holds 6 national invention patents as the first inventor, and 5 additional invention patents.

Technical Advisor of Tanke; Associate Researcher, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Master's Supervisor, Nanchang University and Hunan Agricultural University.

Graduated from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2005 and earned a Ph.D. in Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. After graduation, served successively as an Innovation Assistant Researcher and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Conducted postdoctoral research at the School of Life Sciences and Food Engineering, Nanchang University, and was a visiting scholar at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) from 2013 to 2014.

Key Professional Appointments:
Council Member of the Chinese Association of Agricultural Science Societies; Secretary-General of its Trace Elements and Food Chain Branch; Council Member of the Bio-trace Elements Branch, Chinese Biophysical Society; Council Member of the Domestic Animal Ecology Branch, Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine.

Research Focus:
1.Nutrition and metabolism of amino acids, nucleotides, trace elements, and feed-grade plants and their extracts in dams and offspring; nutrition and circadian clocks; livestock and poultry health and environmental factors.
2.Has led multiple national research projects, including a sub-project under the National Key R&D Program of China during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, a sub-topic under the National Science and Technology Support Program during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, and a Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
3.Has published over 150 academic papers publicly, including more than 60 SCI-indexed papers as first or corresponding author, and 32 conference papers. Has contributed to 5 monographs, filed 22 national invention patent applications, with 16 granted.
4.Has received 8 provincial/ministerial-level awards, including the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the Science and Technology Promotion and Development Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the First Prize of the Chinese Agricultural Science and Technology Award, the First Prize of the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Award, and the First Prize of the Hunan Provincial Invention Award. Was selected as a Leading Young and Middle-Aged Talent in Science and Technology Innovation by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2017.

Technical Advisor, Tanke; Member of the Jiusan Society; Ph.D.
Serves as a Council Member of the Aquaculture Animal Nutrition and Feed Branch, China Society of Fisheries, and a Council Member of the Zhanjiang Feed Industry Association.

Research Focus:
Nutritional physiology and nutritional immunology of aquatic economic animals; feed science for aquatic economic animals.

Research Projects:
He has led 4 Guangdong Provincial and Zhanjiang Municipal Science and Technology projects. Undertaken 18 research projects in total, including sub-projects of the National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology's Achievements Transformation Fund, the Ministry of Science and Technology's Support Program, as well as Guangdong Provincial and Zhanjiang Municipal Science and Technology projects, with total research funding of 1.3 million RMB.

Patents and Awards:
1.As the primary contributor, has obtained authorization for 3 national invention patents;
2.First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education (2004, 2006);
3.Second Prize of the Marine Innovation Achievement Award of the State Oceanic Administration (2004);
4.First Prize (2007), Second Prize (2005), and Third Prize (2004) of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award;
5.Special Prize (2006), First Prize (2004), Second Prize (2004), and Third Prize (2003) of the Zhanjiang Science and Technology Award;

Publications:
Has published over 30 academic papers, of which 8 are indexed by SCI.