Resume of Comrade Wu Weihua

(Current Affairs) Statue of Wu Weihua, Chairman of the Central Committee of Jiu San Society

  Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 7th, Wu Weihua, male, born in September, 1956, is a native of Xiaoyi, Shanxi, Han nationality. Joined Jiu San Society in 2010. Chairman of the 14th Central Committee of Jiu San Society. Director of State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, China Agricultural University, Director and Professor of Academic Committee of China Agricultural University. Distinguished professor, academician of China Academy of Sciences and Changjiang Scholar. The 12th Standing Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Chairman botanical society of china.

  Worked in 1974. From 1978 to 1982, he studied in the Biology Department of Shanxi University and got a bachelor’s degree. From 1982 to 1984, he studied in Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, China Academy of Sciences, and obtained a master’s degree. From 1984 to 1987, he was a lecturer in the School of Biology of Beijing Agricultural University (now China Agricultural University). From 1987 to 1989, he visited the Department of Plant Science, New Jersey State University, USA. From 1989 to 1991, he was a graduate student in the Department of Plant Science, New Jersey State University, USA, and received a doctorate. From 1991 to 1994, he went to Harvard University and Penn State University for postdoctoral research. Since 1994, he has served as an associate professor, professor, director of the Department of Plant Science, dean of the School of Biology, and director of the State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. In the meantime, from 2011 to 2012, he served as the deputy director of the Beijing Rural Work Committee, and from 2008 to 2016, he served as the director of the Life Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

  Member of the Standing Committee of the 12th Central Committee of Jiu San Society and Vice Chairman of the 13th Central Committee. Member of the 10th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the 11th Standing Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.