Wu Mingzhu

Wu Mingzhu (born 3 January 1930) is a Chinese agronomist who is a researcher at the Institute of Horticultural Crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. She is a member of the . She was a delegate to the 13th, 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography Wu Mingzhu was born in Wuhan on January 30, 1930. She studied in the Department of Horticulture, at Southwest University from September 1949 to August 1953, and was a classmate of Yuan Longping.

In May 1953, Wu Mingzhu became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and after graduating in August of that year, she worked for the Southwest Agricultural Bureau in Chongqing as a technician. After working for one year, she went to work as an officer in the Southwest Division of the Rural Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.

From December 1955 to August 1956, she was transferred to the Rural Work Department of the CCP Urumqi Municipal Committee. From August 1956 to 1961, Wu Mingzhu served as deputy director and director of the Shanshan County Agricultural Technology Station and vice principal of the Turpan Agricultural School, and from 1962 to July 1975, Wu Mingzhu served as deputy director and director of the Turpan County Agricultural Technology Station.

From July 1975 to November 1978, Wu Mingzhu was promoted to the position of Deputy Director and Director of the Xinjiang Turpan Regional Science Committee. From November 1978 to April 1985, Wu Mingzhu served as a member of the Xinjiang Tulufan Administrative Bureau and the Tulufan District Committee of the CCP, Deputy Commissioner, and Member of the District Committee. ) that have undergone provincial variety approval or recognition. She was one of the first to start collecting and organizing local variety resources of melons in Xinjiang. She saved a number of endangered resources and established a technological innovation system for melon breeding and soilless cultivation. He died of gastric cancer in 1985.

Honours and awards 1995 State Science and Technology Progress Award for breeding and promotion of new muskmelon series in Xinjiang. 1999 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)