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Biography

Shi Yuanchun, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province. He graduated from the Agronomy Department of Beijing Agricultural University in 1953. Three years later in 1956, he earned a postgraduate degree from the Soil and Agrochemical Department of Beijing Agricultural University.

A China Agricultural University professor, Shi is an academician and agrologist. His academic contributions include discovering a water and salt movement theory in semi-wet monsoon climatic areas. He also proposed a report on geography, classification, and series in the development succession about the time and space of ancient soils at the Loess Plateau during the Pleistocene period.

He has received several honors for his academic studies. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. Three years later, in 1994, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Third World Academy of Science.