Academic excellence, industry expertise, practical execution.
VerdantSource is led by a small, senior team and backed by a deep bench — 100+ experts and advisors, with think-tank support from leading universities across China and abroad. Theory, practice, science and academia, brought to the plot.
- Executive team
- Three principals
- Experts & advisors
- 100+
- Think-tank reach
- 7 universities
- First deployment
- Datong, Lijiang
Three principals, one conviction
A founder-led team pairing AI and industrial strategy, supply-chain architecture, and brand-and-market expansion — each accountable for a different edge of the same chain.
Dr. Huo Hongyi
Chief Executive OfficerChief Technology Officer
Leads the strategic vision and overall implementation of VerdantSource. Specializes in AI-driven rural revitalization, industrial planning and ecosystem development, with extensive experience integrating technology, agriculture and sustainable community growth.
Dr. Duan Haiping
Executive DirectorSupply Chain Architect
Oversees product and platform execution and designs the AI-enabled agricultural supply chain. Responsible for integrating production, logistics, processing and market channels into efficient, data-driven and sustainable value chains.
Wei Xingzhi
Chief Marketing OfficerBrand & Market Expansion
Leads branding, market expansion and strategic partnerships. Focuses on product commercialization, omnichannel marketing and market development to connect premium agricultural products with domestic and international consumers.
Operating principles
The team makes decisions the same way the engine does — demand-led, data-driven, executed on the ground, and built to replicate without reinvention.
Demand-led, not supply-led
Every mandate starts from contracted demand. The team locks buyers and communities before a single plot is planned — discipline before optimism.
Data-driven decisions
Judgement is anchored in the engine: perception, retrieval, demand-capped optimization and live forecasting. We plant to a number, not a hunch.
On-the-ground execution
Technology only counts when it reaches the two-mu plot. We pair the engine with operators who live the work, village by village.
Capital-light replication
The same engine serves any village — no bespoke model per deployment. Each project compounds the case base and makes the next one cheaper.
A deep bench of experts and advisors
Backed by 100+ experts and advisors, with think-tank support from leading universities across China and abroad.
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Experts and advisors
Including a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician among the academic and advisory group, alongside senior industry and government counsel.
University think-tank network
Academic & advisory group
CAS academician · Peking · Fudan · Cambridge · Maine · ECNU · SISU · XJTU
Stewardship, oversight and accountability
VerdantSource is run by its executive team but governed beyond it. A board sets strategy and approves capital allocation, while a standing advisory committee — drawn from the academic and think-tank network — provides independent review of the decision engine, methodology and impact claims.
The intent is institutional, not personal: decisions survive any individual, outcomes are measured and retained as cases, and the same traceability we ask of the supply chain applies to how we report on ourselves.
Board oversight
The executive team operates under a board that sets strategy, approves capital allocation and holds management accountable for measurable rural-revitalization outcomes.
Advisory committee
A standing advisory committee — drawn from the academic and think-tank network — reviews the decision engine, methodology and impact claims for independence and rigour.
Traceable accountability
The same traceability we demand of the supply chain applies to ourselves: graded outcomes, retained case records and transparent reporting to partners and governments.
The bench behind the team
Leadership reaches further than three names — a network of experts, a footprint across provinces, and a compounding base of village cases.
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Experts & advisors
Across academia, industry and government
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Provinces
Proven replication beyond Yunnan
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Village case base
Studied and retained as cases
A small team, a wide circle
VerdantSource is built by a small, senior team and a wide circle of partners — operators, scientists, channel partners and advisors who share one belief: that technology should reach the plot.
Partners
Demand, channel and government partners
Advisors
Academic and industry think-tank counsel
Operators
On-the-ground deployment and managed ops
拾千农 · 得万村 · Onboard a thousand farmers, reach ten thousand villages.
See the platform in action
VerdantSource turns coordination into compounding returns — connecting fragmented supply to real demand, village by village.