Dr. Haixue Zheng is the Director of Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He has been selected as a leading talent of the National High-level Talent Special Support Program, a "Young and Middle-aged Scientific and Technological Innovation Leading Talent" of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a "Young Talent" and "Agricultural Talent" of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a veterinary drug review expert of the Ministry of Agriculture, a vice chairman of the Genetics Society of Gansu Province, an executive director of the Veterinary Public Health Society of the Chinese Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Association, a director of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Branch of the Chinese Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Association, a member of the Veterinary Microbiology Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Microbiology, and a reviewer for J Virol and Vaccine.