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Yang Xiandong (1902-1998), a native of Liyang (present Xiantao), Hubei, a famous cotton and agronomist, an agricultural administrative expert, and a social activist. Former Vice Minister of Agriculture, Chairman of the Agricultural Society and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology. In 1923, he was admitted to Nanjing Jinling University for agricultural science. In 1934, he went to Cornell University to study abroad. He successively obtained a master's degree and a doctorate. In 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he gave up his high salary and resolutely left the United States to return to his country after an inspection of the Soviet Union. He joined the revolution in November of the same year. While serving as an agricultural adviser to the US Economic Operations Agency, he actively raised a large amount of funds, medicine and materials for the New Fourth Army. During the War of Liberation, Yang Xiandong united foreign progressives extensively and delivered a large amount of food, medicine, equipment, quilts, canned food and other materials for the military and civilians of the Central Plains Liberated Area led by Li Xiannian. Joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1956.

Yang Xiandong

Yang Xiandong, born in November 1902, Hubei

Yang Xiandong, born on November 23, 1902 in Puyang County, Jianghan Plain, Hubei Province (now Xiantao City)

1 Yang Xiandong. Survey report of cotton field area, unit yield and total output in Hubei Province. The contract for Shanghai Huayu Yarn Mill, 1928.

2 Yang Xiandong. Test report of Hubei cotton and degraded cotton, 1930.

3 Yang Xiandong. A bird's eye view of US cotton production (English), 1934.

4 Yang Xiandong. Regional System of Cotton Purebred in the United States and Possibility of Adaptation to China (English), 1935.

5 Yang Xiandong. Development of American Cotton Grading Standard System (English), 1937.

6 Yang Xiandong. Foodstuff Produttvin and Comsamp Tion of Occupation China. 1945.

7 Yang Xiandong. Coffon Prodwtoon and Comsaup tion (induding Army and Pooples Need) in Free China. 1945.

8 Yang Xiandong. National Land Use Policies and Tasks. China Agricultural Cotton Volume II, 1959.6.

9 Yang Xiandong. Guidelines and tasks for cotton work in the future. China Agricultural Cotton Volume I, No. 5, 1950.9.

10 Yang Xiandong. Policies and Tasks for Increasing National Cotton Production in 1951. China Agricultural Cotton Volume II, No. 7, 1951.4.

11 Yang Xiandong. New China began to use aircraft to eliminate locusts. China Agricultural Cotton Volume II, No. 4, 1951.8.

12 Yang Xiandong. Food Production in New China (English). British Food and Hunger, 1954.

13 Yang Xiandong. Technical Measures for Further Increasing Cotton Yield Per Unit Area. China Agricultural Cotton, 3rd issue, 1954.

14 Yang Xiandong. More and Better Cotton. China Construction (English) Edition, 1955.7.

15 Yang Xiandong. Great achievements of Chinese cotton production (Russian). World Cotton Conference in Tashkent, Soviet Union, 1957.

Yang Xiandong hopes that the agricultural academic community will continue to work hard to broaden the solidarity of agricultural science and technology workers, further active thinking, open up collaboration, strengthen the combination of natural science and social science, promote the combination of science and technology, economy and culture, and face modernization and The world, facing the future, grasps the national conditions, grasps the characteristics of the times, and actively conducts in-depth academic research activities on China's agricultural modernization in order to make greater contributions to the promotion of China's four modernizations.

With regard to his different academic opinions on some experts, Yang Xiandong took the trouble to ask for advice with an open mind, proceeding from the desire for unity, finding common points accepted by experts in various fields, drawing on the strengths of everyone, and finally completing China's The agricultural part of a historic scientific and technological development plan.