Li Xiaodong, a native of Panjin, Liaoning Province, was born in 1965, a member of the Communist Party of China, graduated from Dalian Fisheries School in 1984, studied for a master's degree in Dalian Fisheries College from 1999 to 2002 and obtained a master's degree, and studied for a doctorate in Ocean University of China from 2002 to 2007 and obtained agronomy Ph.D., Chairman and Director of R&D Center of Panjin Photosynthetic Crab Industry Co., Ltd., Director of Fisheries Department of Shenyang Agricultural University. Served as the host of the new species breeding project of the "Twelfth Five-Year" Rural Area National 863 Science and Technology Program "Chinese Eriocheir Crab Breeding" and the National Science and Technology Support Program "Research and Demonstration of Freshwater Breeding and Large-scale Breeding Technology" people. Head of National River Crab Genetics and Breeding Center, National and Local Joint Innovation Key Engineering Laboratory River Crab Breeding Laboratory, National Modern Seed Industry Demonstration Field and National River Crab Improved Breed Farm, Vice President of China Fisheries Association, Chairman of River Crab Branch, once awarded China Youth Science and Technology Award, Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions to the National Ten Thousand Talents Project, National Leading Talents in Science and Technology Entrepreneurship, and the Third Batch of Leading Talents in Science and Technology Entrepreneurship of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program. As an off-campus tutor of Ocean University of China, Huazhong Agricultural University, and Dalian Ocean University, Li Xiaodong has jointly trained 3 postdoctoral fellows and 12 academic masters, and guided undergraduates to graduate production practice and graduation thesis. After joining Shenyang Agricultural University in 2016, he trained 2 Master of Science and 1 Master of Professional Studies.

Li Xiaodong has been committed to the research and development of the river crab industry since he started working in 1984. His landmark scientific research achievements are: In 1990, he developed the industrialized artificial seedling technology of river crabs; in 1991, he created the rice crab breeding model; in 1995, he developed the river crab Ecological seedling technology, after several technologies have been promoted nationwide, it has promoted the development of my country's river crab industry, including several core technology projects "Research and Promotion of Key Technologies for Chinese Eriocheir Crab Seedling and Breeding", which won the National Science and Technology Progress II in 2010. other prizes. He presided over the selection and breeding of the first new Chinese mitten crab variety "Guanghe No. 1" approved by the Ministry of Agriculture in my country. After its promotion, it has obtained huge economic benefits. contributed to the development.

In 1999, Li Xiaodong led a group of college students to set up Panjin Photosynthetic Crab Industry Co., Ltd., which has grown continuously through the transformation of a series of achievements with independent intellectual property rights. In 2019, the company was rated as a national key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization, becoming the only domestic company with A leading enterprise with the crab industry as its main business. At present, the two crab fry production bases in Jiangsu and Liaoning have an annual output of 100,000 kilograms of crab fry, and the national market share has reached 16%, ranking the domestic leader.

In view of his contribution to scientific and technological innovation and increasing farmers' income, he was rated as a special labor model in Liaoning Province, a national labor model, a candidate for a national moral model, a moral model in Liaoning Province, a good man in China, and an outstanding party worker in the country. He was elected as the representative of the Eleventh National People's Congress and the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Li Xiaodong is leading his photosynthetic team with the core values of "home, faith, kindness - trustworthiness, love of home, innovation, and goodness", and unites sincerely towards the goal of leading the rapid development of the crab industry led by scientific and technological innovation , Work hard and move forward bravely.