About Zhongyi Yang’s work
From January to March 1995 and from August to October 1995, Zhongyi Yang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Baptist University. At the time, Yang was based at Zhongshan University.
Biography
Zhongyi Yang received his PhD from Tohoku University in 1988 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Biology at Sun Yat-sen University after graduation. Yang was promoted to professor in 1994 and is a professor at the School of Life Sciences at Sun Yat-sen University. Yangs Research on Ryegrass-Rice Grassland Field Rotation System has significant economic and ecological benefits. Yang is a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He also initiated the establishment of the Guangdong Provincial Meet Nature Environmental Education Promotion Association.
He Presided over the Qingyuan Youth Ecology and Environmental Education Base, a project of Japan's Grassroots Fund, to carry out environmental education for rural youth in backward areas. He was awarded the Star of Outstanding Overseas Youth in Guangdong Province and the Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow of Guangdong Province. The scientific research achievements won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education. Candidate for the first Top Ten Environmental Protection Stars in Southern Guangdong.