Since the founding of New China 70 years ago, the majority of practitioners in China's pesticide industry have taken the revitalization of the national pesticide industry as their responsibility, making China quickly become a major manufacturer of agrochemicals in the world, and making great contributions to ensuring the sustainable development of China's agriculture, food security and national stability. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the motherland, the 12th China Pesticide Innovation Contribution Award has set up a lifetime achievement award to recognize people who have made important contributions to the development of the pesticide industry. Mr. Chen Wanyi, a pesticide major in the Faculty of Science of our university, became one of the four experts who received this honor.
Professor Chen Wanyi, pesticide chemist, born in April 1929 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Provincial Zhenjiang Middle School in 1949, admitted to the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of The College of Agriculture of Peking University, merged into Beijing Agricultural University in 1950, after graduating in pesticide science in 1953, studied under Professor Hu Bingfang for graduate school, after graduating from graduate school in 1956, he stayed on to teach, successively served as lecturer, associate professor, professor and doctoral supervisor of China Agricultural University, and taught organic chemistry, organophosphorus chemistry, pesticide literature and other courses for many years. He was a director, executive director and honorary director of China Plant Protection Society (1984~2001); He is a member of the Pesticide Professional Committee of the Plant Protection Society, the chairman of the Pesticide Science Branch (1984~1997), and a member of the 2nd to 4th National Pesticide Registration and Evaluation Committee. During the establishment of the Southern New Pesticide Creation Center and the Northern Pesticide Engineering Center in the country, participate in the project establishment and acceptance work as a member of the expert group; During the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" to "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, he served as a judge of the national pesticide research project; He has been invited to participate in the annual review of the National Natural Science Chemistry Department of China for many times. Main founder and first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pesticide Science (1999-2003).
Mainly engaged in organophosphorus chemistry and pesticide research, has won the National Science Conference Award, the National Invention Award and many others. Before the Cultural Revolution, under the leadership of Mr. Huang Ruilun, he engaged in the research of medicinal agents for the prevention and control of parasitic flies of tulip silkworms. It was found that the fly poison phosphorus (silkworm fly No. 3) has a percutaneous systemic effect on parasitic flies, which not only revives the silkworm industry in Liaoning Province, but also the first case of the use of systemic agents to control parasites in beneficial insects. He is the chief editor of 4 professional books such as "Pesticides and Applications" and "Research and Development of New Pesticides". Among them, "Research and Development of New Pesticides" has been republished many times and won the third prize of ministerial technological progress.
In addition to teaching and research, it also attaches great importance to promoting the development of Pesticide Industry in China. During the presidency of the Pesticide Branch of the Plant Protection Society, he has held more than 10 pesticide symposiums and pesticide training courses in and outside Beijing. In response to the misunderstanding of pesticides in society, he put forward the view of "treating pesticides well, using them for their benefits and disadvantages". In 2003, when participating in the strategic study of the national medium- and long-term (2006-2020) scientific and technological development plan, under the suggestion of Mr. Chen and others, "research and development of chemical pesticides with good environmental compatibility" was listed as one of the key projects in the strategic research report on plant protection technology upgrading, which promoted the rapid development of chemical pesticide research in the next 10 years.
Mr. Chen has trained more than 20 graduate students over the years. During his tenure as the director of the pesticide major, the first batch of pesticide scholarship system for pesticide majors of agricultural universities was established to encourage the majority of young students in pesticide disciplines. It is worth mentioning that Mr. Chen's disciple, Professor Ling Yun of the School of Science of our university, also won the first prize of the 12th China Pesticide Innovation Contribution Award - Technological Innovation. The master and apprentice received the award on the same stage, which became a special scenery of this award ceremony.