Shen Zonghan

Shen Zonghan

Wu juenong is a world-renowned agricultural expert, crop genetics and breeding expert, agricultural administration expert, doctor of Cornell University, and a classmate of Zhejiang a agricultural college. “

essential information

The husband of Shen Liying, the female sage of wheat, and the father of Hybrid Maize in China -- Wu Shaoqi's teacher.

Study hard

When he was a child, his family was extremely poor. His father refused to borrow money for him to study because he borrowed too much. After many years of hard work, he studied in Hangzhou, Beijing, the United States and other places, and finally achieved good results. He graduated from the Agricultural College of Cornell University in 1926. In January 1913, he was admitted to Jianqiao a agricultural school in Hangzhou. After graduating from Cornell University in 1926, he immediately returned to Jinling university to teach and devote himself to agricultural education.

Agronomy serves the country

After returning to China, Shen Zonghan first taught in Jinling University. In 1936, Shen Zonghan organized the Central Agricultural Experimental Institute. In 1939, he was elected vice president of the world genetics Congress. From 1934 to 1950, Shen Zonghan devoted himself to the improvement of Wheat Varieties in China. By 1997, the most abundant wheat variety in the Yangtze River valley was the "JINDA 2905" wheat variety that Shen Zonghan successfully improved. In 1948, in order to solve China's increasingly serious rural problems, the Chinese and American governments jointly established the "China Rural Rehabilitation Joint Committee". Shen Zonghan was once again listed in the delegation. Less than a year after the establishment of the association, more than 200 agricultural projects were launched. Shen Zonghan, with his wife and children, came to Taiwan in 1949. He still insisted on agricultural construction and continued to assist the government in promoting land reform, reorganizing farmers' associations, building water conservancy and improving rural health. In addition, another major task of Shen Zonghan is to assist the international agricultural organization and help developing countries develop agricultural resources. Therefore, he led many agricultural advisory missions to the Philippines and Thailand to teach the local government how to develop agriculture. In the 1950s, he was a leading agronomist in Taiwan. He was in charge of Taiwan's agriculture. He was a planner and an important participant in the post-war economic take-off. After 1960, he presided over the establishment of the first international agricultural research center in Asia: "Asian Vegetable Research and development center". It can be said that in the economic development of Taiwan, Shen Zonghan is a famous expert and scholar in the field of agriculture. He has written a lot and has a certain reputation in the international agricultural academic circles. For 86 years, he never left his agricultural job. He died of illness in Taipei in 1980.

social relations

Shen Liying, who has a PhD in Chinese and Western Agricultural Sciences since 19220, is still an expert in wheat science. During the Anti Japanese War, he carried his family with his mouth, experimental seeds, materials and so on to exile all over the country. He died of illness in Chongqing experimental field in 1941. Chongqing was shocked, and celebrities from all walks of life gave speeches to mourn. Shen Junshan is only 9 years old. He later became president of Tsinghua University in Taiwan. Hu Shi, a classmate, adores Shen Zonghan. He thinks he is a real agronomist. He can't distinguish apples and grow cotton, so he has to study philosophy instead.

Writing

He has been engaged in agronomy all his life, and has made many contributions. He has written many monographs, such as Chinese agricultural resources, collection of Chinese agricultural history, and adaptive regions of wheat in various provinces of China. He has written three English books, all of which are published by Cornell University Press in the United States, and a large number of English works or short stories are scattered in relevant journals, magazines, newspapers, etc.

Chinese PinYin : Shen Zong Han