In 1999, Prof. Zhang got his Ph.D of Agronomy in China Agricultural University (Beijing, China) in the field of animal genetics, breeding & reproduction. Since 1988, he has been working in South China Agricultural University as instructor (1988-1990), lecturer (1990-1993), associate professor (1993-1997) and professor (1997-). From 1998 to 1999, he also worked in the University of Hong Kong as a visiting scientist. During the past over 30 years, Prof. Zhang conducted and finished more than 30 research projects, focusing on chicken genetics and genomics, and their application to yellow chicken breeding. He has published 408 peer-reviewed papers, of which 179 were published in the international journal.
