There are many unknown grassroots scientists in China who have been making contributions to the motherland, but some of us don’t even know they exist and are still enjoying the fruits of their labor. Let’s take a look. Look, who are these unknown scientists?
Suining, Sichuan. Li Xianming, a 67-year-old farmer, had studied seed cultivation. Curious about why peanuts did not flower, starting in 1994, he invested 200,000 yuan he earned from driving a car into research on improving peanut seeds. During this period, he also borrowed 1 million yuan. After 18 years of research, he has successfully cultivated 8 varieties of peanuts and obtained 8 patents.
China's scientific research on naked oats has reached the world's advanced level - not only has it cultivated better oat varieties, but it has also made a breakthrough in the discovery that oats have ecological restoration functions such as improving saline-alkali soil and fixing sand dunes. . What is also surprising is that the country's leading scientists who have produced these world-class scientific research results are not from "nationally recognized" scientific research institutions or institutions of higher learning, but from a remote grassroots agricultural science institution. Since 2007, our country has gradually established 50 modern agricultural industry technology systems, each led by 50 chief scientists. Most of them are researchers from national and provincial agricultural scientific research institutions. The only exception is Ren Changzhong. He comes from a grassroots agricultural research institution with less than 200 employees. Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jilin Province, a prefecture-level agricultural research institution; Ren Changzhong, President of Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In fact, Baicheng City Academy of Agricultural Sciences is not only eye-catching in its research on oats, but also on sunflowers, edible beans and other grains and beans, which are also leading in the country.
Li Can, born in Jinchang City, Gansu Province in January 1960, is a physical chemist, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences, a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a clean energy expert Director of the National Laboratory (in preparation), Dean of the School of Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of Science and Technology of China, and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Fundamentals of Catalysis. After graduating from Hexi University in 1980, Li Can stayed at the school to teach; in 1983, he was admitted to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences to pursue a master's degree; in 1989, he received a doctorate jointly trained by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and then entered Worked at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; was promoted to researcher in 1993; was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003; was elected as an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2005; became deputy director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007; was elected as a European Fellow in 2008 Foreign academician of the Academy of Humanities and Natural Sciences. Won the China Catalysis Achievement Award in 2014. Li Can is mainly engaged in research on catalytic materials, catalytic reactions and catalytic spectral characterization, and is committed to solar photocatalytic hydrogen production and solar photovoltaic cell materials.