China Vitae

Biography

Wu Changxin, male, Han nationality, is a native of Sheng County, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Pasturage Department of Beijing Agricultural University in 1957. He is animal hereditary breeding expert.

An animal husbandman, Wu spent much of his academic career researching animal hereditary theories and breeding practices. He has also served as a professor and dean of the animal scientific and technological school at China Agricultural University.

Wang, who studied seed selection theories, devised a hypothesis regarding quantitative character favorable recessive genes for the first time. He is also recognized as having advanced a mixed family concept of polyembryonic animals and theorized about calculating consanguinity correlations in mixed families and their approximate formulas. Wang later applied compound series breeding theories to the breeding of hen laying.

In 1995, he was elected as an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.