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Qian Duo, also known as Qian Xuanyong, the word Zhenhuang, was born in Guangji, Hubei (now Wuxue City, Hubei Province). Born on April 10, 1903. His father, Qian Jianshu, served as a judge of the Supreme Court during the Republic of China. He was a clean government and advocated frugality. Influenced by his family since childhood, Qian Duo lived a simple life and was diligent and studious. After graduating from middle school in 1918, he was admitted to Hubei Provincial Foreign Language College and studied German. After graduating in 1923, he transferred to the Department of Foreign Languages of Peking University. Two years later, he was admitted to Hubei Province as a government-funded international student. He traveled to Japan and studied in the Department of Forestry, Department of Agriculture, Imperial University of Tokyo. After three years of study, he engaged in research work at the Meguro Forestry Experimental Site of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Japan. In 1932, he returned to China and continued his studies at the Department of Forestry, In 1932, he went to Hubei Province and served as the technical director of the Provincial Construction Department and the director of Xiangyang Forest Farm. After 1938, he engaged in forestry education in Hubei Agricultural College, Central University and other institutions of higher learning. In 1953, Qian Duo served as the head of the forestry department of Nanjing Forestry College, and in 1956, he served as the deputy dean. In 1956, he went to the Soviet Union to inspect higher forestry education and forestry scientific research. From 1959 to 1960, he engaged in editing work and was responsible for the revision of forestry in "Cihai". He died of illness in Huangshan on August 7, 1969.

In 1938, on the eve of the fall of Xiangyang, Hubei Province, Qian Duo went to Enshi, Hubei Province, where he served as the academic director of Hubei Agricultural College. After 1941, he successively served as a professor of the Department of Forestry of the College of Agriculture of Central University, the secretary general of the school board of Nanjing University, and the director and deputy dean of the Department of Forestry of Nanjing Forestry College. In the field of forestry education, he has worked hard for more than 20 years. Teaching by word and example has cultivated many forestry construction talents.

Ganduo has taught courses such as forestry, forest management, forest computing, forestry comparative studies, and tree surveying. He wrote detailed handouts for every course he opened, rewrote the handouts every semester, added new content, and passed on the knowledge he had gained to his students. Since 1951, he began to teach himself Russian, compiled textbooks and related materials on Soviet Forest Management into handouts, and often prepared lessons late into the night or even all night long. He often warns students that "paper will always feel shallow, and they must deepen their understanding of knowledge through practice." During the holidays, he personally led students to practice in forest areas, encouraging students to practice iron footboards that could climb mountains and mountains and master practical field operations skills. During his field internship, he climbed mountains with his students, ate and lived together. While traveling on the mountain road, students saw that he was over fifty years old and rushed to carry the luggage for him; he always refused politely. Ganduo's hard work, plain work, and strict self-discipline deeply infected his students.

After serving as a teaching leader, Gando was very concerned about the training of teachers, and from time to time sent young teachers to investigate in production units or to study in brother colleges. Gando was familiar with four foreign languages: German, Japanese, English, and Russian. During his busy official business, Gando took time to translate foreign language materials for the reference of young teachers and help them broaden their knowledge. His translation of "Tree Measurement and Growth Measurement Method" by W. Schneider of the Democratic Republic of Germany is one of the most extensive monographs. He died because he could not finish the manuscript and could not be officially published. Later, it was mimeographed by the teaching and research team for internal communication.

In the winter of 1956, Ganduo visited the Soviet Union. After returning home, he gave a comprehensive introduction to Soviet higher forestry education, as well as the Soviet Union's scientific research topics and academic contention in forestry.

During the Education Revolution in 1958, some people proposed to rename the Department of Forestry to the Department of Forestry to reflect the integration of education and productive labor. Ganduo believes that the combination with productive labor should be reflected in the teaching plan. The term "forestry" has its broad connotation, and the name of the subject of forestry should not be changed. Some people have also proposed reducing the teaching time of basic courses to shorten the academic system. Ganduo not only opposed the cuts, but also proposed to strengthen the teaching of basic courses so that students have profound basic knowledge and broader adaptability. These insights still have practical significance for today's forestry education.

At the beginning of 1959, agricultural and forestry colleges in East China and Central China jointly compiled teaching materials, and Gan Duo was responsible for editor-in-chief of "Forest Management Planning". At that time, the use of Soviet textbooks in teaching was often divorced from the reality of China. He proposed that the content of teaching materials should be based on China's national conditions, be able to play a role in guiding the actual domestic production, and be written in a language acceptable to students, so that students can easily digest and understand them and apply them at work. After the book was published in 1959, it was identified as a teaching book for higher forestry colleges by the Education Department of the Ministry of Forestry.

As early as the early 1950s, Qian Duo noticed the various benefits of forests, and in 1953, he presided over the compilation of the first scenic forest manager case in Nanjing Zijinshan. In 1957, he also proposed "Nanjing Zijinshan Scenic Forest Investigation and Planning" as a scientific research topic for the teaching and research group, laying a preliminary foundation for the management of Chinese scenic forests.

The name "Forest Managerial Science" was originally used in Japan. "Manager" has a specific meaning in China, and the use of this name is not only easy to cause misunderstanding in China, but also fails to reflect the content of this discipline. After analyzing the nature and content of the discipline and listening to the opinions of the production units, Ganduo proposed to change the name of Forest Managerial Science to "Forest Management Planning Science". This name was not adopted due to differences of opinion, but Ganduo's spirit of courage to explore is still worthy of future generations to learn.