Xu Qifeng

AWARDEE OF AGRONOMY PRIZE

XU QIFENG

Xu Qifeng was born in Nov. 1929 in Yixing County, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from College of Agronomy, Jinling University in Nanjing in 1952. In the same year, he joined the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. In 1954, he was transferred to civilian work in Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Public Health, Central Higher Education Ministry. In 1956, he became a postgraduate in Department of Agronomy, Beijing Agricultural University. His advisor was Prof. Li Jingxiong, the famous cytogeneticist. After finishing study in Jan. 1961, he was kept in school. Then he has served successively as assistant, lecturer, associate professor and professor. Meanwhile he has held the position of vicedirector and director of the genetic laboratory, and held a concurrent post of secretarygeneral in Beijing Genetic Academy. He went abroad to do exercitation, inspection and research cooperation in Romania, Yugoslavia, the U.S., Japan and Mexico, respectively. For a long time, he has taught the lesson of Genetics and Maize Breeding, edited the textand reference books in genetics and plant breeding. He has published more than twenty research articles in internal and external journals. He has bred the maize hybrids named “Nongda 101 to 108” extending to nationwide farmers. In 2000, he gained the First Class “Rich Harvest” Honor conferred by the Ministry of Agriculture, the First Class Honor of Beijing Science and Technology Advancement. In 2001, he obtained one inventors patent right and two new species protection right, and also won the remarkable achievement of National Key Science and Technology “Ninth Five Years Program” conferred by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the National Project Committee and the National Economy and Trade Committee. In the meantime, he won the title of remarkable agricultural technological worker conferred by China Agronomy Academy. In 2002, he gained the First Class Honor of National Science and Technology Advancement. In 2004, he won the Technology Week of the United Nations.