He is a professor at the College of Grassland Science, Gansu Agricultural University, China. He has published more than 60 research articles in high impact factor journals and three national patents. He wrote a book named Supervision of Turf Engineering, China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, China. He undertook six funded projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He did postdoctoral study at the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2009 to 2012. He obtained his PhD at the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. He studied for his master’s at Agronomy College, Gansu Agricultural University, and for his bachelor’s degree at College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University. He studied as a visiting scholar at Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand from October 2010 to October 2011, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States from December 2016 to June 2017, and University of Almeria, Spain from February to August 2023. He had more than 32 year’s experiences on teaching and experiments at Gansu Agricultural University on irrigation and rainwater harvesting in semiarid areas China. His teaching experiences were on turf grassland irrigation and crop irrigation. His experiments were on planting alfalfa, sainfoin, potato and wheat for rainwater harvesting, water saving, and reducing nitrate leaching.