Professor HU Feng, Vice President of Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) in charge of international cooperation, is a well-known agro-ecology scholar who enjoys the State Council Special Government Allowance. He is a PhD supervisor of the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, and Chair of the Education Development Foundation at NAU. In addition to being Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Ecological Civilization Research and Promotion Association, Prof. HU is the head of the National Teaching Team of Ecology, Chief Expert of the Ecological Civilization Science and Technology Transfer in Jiangsu Province, and the editorial board member of Pedosphere and Acta Ecologica Sinica. 

Over the past 30 years, Prof. HU has been devoting to teaching and research in the fields of agro-ecology and integrated management of soil and water resources. He has chaired more than 30 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key High-tech R&D Program of China, and the Special Scientific Research Projects for Public Welfare (Agriculture), and so on. He has received dozens of honors, including two National Teaching Achievement Awards, and three Provincial and Ministerial Level Awards for Science and Technology Progress. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 papers and has been granted 18 patents.