Researcher of Tea Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Xiao Qiang was one of the major drafters of local standards for organic tea in Zhejiang. He also drafted national standards for organic tea and “Technical Procedures for Pollution-Free Food and Tea Production”, which was an agricultural industry standard published by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2001.
Positions he holds include director of the China Society of plant Protection; director of the Zhejiang Society of Plant Protection; director of the Zhejiang Tea Association; editorial board member of “Chinese Tea”, “Agricultural Science and Technology Communication” and “Tea”; vice chairman of the Zhejiang Tea Association; and vice secretary general of the Zhejiang Technical Committee for the Standardization of Tea.
His research direction is tea plantations.