On this day, 128 years ago, on February 25, 1897 (January 24, 1897, the lunar calendar), Chen Fengtong, a pioneer in agricultural science and technology in New China, was born. Chen Fengtong (1897.2.25-1980.10.4) was a famous agronomist, expert in agricultural science and technology management, and the main pioneer and leader of agricultural science and technology in New China. A native of Neixiang County, Henan Province. In 1921, he graduated from Baoding First Agricultural School, Hebei Province. From 1929 to 1931, he went to Japan to study and entered the specialized department of Tokyo Agricultural University in Japan to study agricultural economics. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1936. In 1955, he was selected as a member (academician) of China Academy of Sciences. After the founding of New China, he served successively as director of the North China Institute of Agricultural Sciences, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and vice president of the branch of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1957 - 1959) and consultant (1977 - 1980). Representative to the First and Second National People's Congresses, representative to the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and vice chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology. He has been mainly engaged in organizational and leadership work in agricultural production and agricultural scientific research throughout his life. In the 1940s, scientific workers were organized to carry out agricultural scientific research work in the anti-Japanese democratic base areas, including the breeding and improvement of improved varieties of wheat, rice, corn, and millet, the breeding of improved varieties of livestock, forest protection and afforestation. The "Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region Natural Science Association" was founded and the publication "Natural Science Circle" was founded. Organize scientific researchers to go to rural areas for investigation and research, establish experimental bases, and adopt the policy of combining indoor research with rural production to control locust disasters, wheat stripe rust, swine fever, rinderpest and other infectious diseases. Advocate the study of agricultural zoning, and do some research work on the improvement and utilization of red soil, soil and water conservation, and the introduction and cultivation of subtropical crops such as trefoil rubber and cassava in southern Jiangxi. Representative works include "The Research on Winter Wheat Yellow Rust in the Country Urgently Need to Be Unified","On Agricultural Experts Going to the Countryside" and "How to Integrate Agricultural Science Work with Practice". Chen Fengtong is an agronomist, agricultural science and technology management expert, and the main pioneer and leader of agricultural science and technology in New China. During the Anti-Japanese War, he organized and led agricultural production and agricultural science and technology work in base areas behind enemy lines. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he made important contributions to creating and developing my country's agricultural science and technology undertakings, guiding the vast number of agricultural science and technology personnel to go deep into production, integrate them with reality, and take the road of integrating workers, peasants and soldiers.