Yu Songlie (; 13 March 1921 – 20 April 2016) was a Chinese

agricultural Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created f ...

scientist, educator and an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences a ...

(CAE). He is known as one of the founders of

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cultivation science in China.

Biography

Yu was born in Cixi County, Zhejiang. He obtained a bachelor's degree of agronomy from Fukien Christian University in 1942. He became a teaching assistant in Fukien Provincial Agriculture College, Fukien Christian University and Shanghai Nantong College after his graduation. He was enrolled in Shandong Agriculture College in 1949 when the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

took control of mainland China. On 4 December 1997, Yu was elected an academician of the

for his achievements in wheat cultivation science. Yu died on 20 April 2016 at the age of 95 in

Tai'an Tai'an () is a prefecture-level city in Western Shandong Province of the People's Republic of China. Centered on Mount Tai, the city borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the north, Zibo to the east, Linyi to the southeast, Liaocheng ...

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1921 births 2016 deaths Chinese agronomists Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Scientists from Ningbo Fujian Normal University alumni People from Cixi {{China-scientist-stub