Zheng Xilong, male, PhD, associate professor and master's supervisor, is Vice Dean of the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the School of Chinese Medicinal Resources of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University. He is a council member of the Ethnobotany Branch of the Botanical Society of China, a member of the Chinese Medicinal Resources Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine and a standing council member of the Guangdong Botanical Society. His research covers the classification, identification, development and quality evaluation of Chinese and ethnic medicinal resources. He has conducted resource expeditions in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Brunei and in tropical and subtropical regions of China such as Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong, describing four new species, two new records for China and 22 new provincial records. He has published 68 papers in journals including Journal of Ethnopharmacology, The Plant Journal, Annales Botanici Fennici, Guihaia, Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany, Plant Diversity and Resources and Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica, and holds four invention patents, including a rapid propagation system for the rare medicinal orchid Ludisia discolor. He is editor of Compendium of Chinese Medicinal Resources — Hainan Volume, Ethnobotanical Studies in Hainan, Li Medicinal Flora and Stories of Hainan Wetland Plants, associate editor of several monographs including New Chinese Materia Medica, Illustrated Plants of the Tropical Rainforests of China, Inventory of Plant Species Diversity of Hainan, Plants and Vegetation of the Qizhou Islands of Hainan and Chinese Dietary Therapy Materia Medica, and a contributor to the national 14th Five-Year Plan textbooks Medicinal Botany and Chinese Medicinal Resources. As a principal contributor he has issued 49 group standards of the China Association of Chinese Medicine and three Hainan local standards for medicinal materials, and his research has received one first prize of the Guangdong Science and Technology Award and two first prizes and one second prize of the Hainan Science and Technology Award.