Dr. Kangning Zhao, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from Nanjing Agricultural University, member of the Chinese Veterinary Association, member of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, and external postgraduate supervisor at Nanjing Agricultural University.
After graduating with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in veterinary medicine from Nanjing Agricultural University in 2014, he successively joined Carthage Veterinary Services and Enable Veterinary Services in the United States. There, he worked under American veterinarians to provide production veterinary consulting and training services in China. He has undergone pig production training at high-level farms in the U.S., Denmark, Slovakia, and other countries. He was responsible for the startup and production management of multiple large-scale pig farms.
In 2020, he joined Huanshan Group as General Manager of the Health Management Department, overseeing biosafety, health management, and laboratory diagnostic services for the system. By implementing innovative biosafety measures such as air filtration, he achieved disease elimination and established negative herds (for African Swine Fever, PRRS, PED, Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, and APP double-negativity) across multiple farms. He developed a biosafety and health management system tailored to the development of northern China’s pig farming industry, eliminating major diseases in over 90% of the pig population within a 100,000-sow production system. This enabled the system to expand steadily from 30,000 base sows in Shandong in 2020 to over 100,000 base sows by 2024, achieving competitive production and operational performance. During this period, he built a professional pig veterinary team of over 50 members, including three who received the Professor Mo Science Practice Award at the LiMan Conference and one who won first prize in the Swine Veterinary Case Discussion Competition.
In 2024, he joined Zhejiang Qinglian Food Co., Ltd., where he is responsible for the production and health management of the pig population in the system. In Zhejiang, he has established a high-health breeding population of over 20,000 sows (double-negative for PRRS, Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, PED, and APP). His primary research focuses on the establishment and application of next-generation biosafety systems and the prevention, control, and elimination of major swine diseases.
