Yang Xiandong,1902165438+10 was born in a poor farmer's home in Heba Village, Biyang County, Jianghan Plain, Hubei Province. I started herding cattle when I was five years old. At the age of seven, I began to study in private schools in rural areas. After the Revolution of 1911, he joined the Hankou Renzhi School with his eldest brother, and 13 years old entered the higher primary school affiliated to Yuezhou Hubin University. After that, I went back and forth to Hankou and studied in Boxue Academy. 1923 graduated, and was admitted to Nanjing Jinling University with excellent agricultural achievements, focusing on cotton and sericulture. As a farmer's child, he is determined to devote himself to the agricultural improvement in China.

1In the summer of 927, after graduating from Jinling University, Yang Xiandong went to teach at Henan Xunzheng College founded by General Feng Yuxiang. From 65438 to 0928, he returned to his hometown in Hubei and served as the technician and acting director of Hubei cotton experimental field in Wuchang, which laid a good foundation for the development of Hubei cotton production increase and improvement, and was favored and valued by Ying Shi, director of Hubei Construction Department at that time, and Wang Shijie, president of Wuhan University.

193 1 autumn, Chiang Kai-shek led the people's armed forces to surround Honghu area, regardless of people's lives, blew up the Jingjiang levee in Dongwan, and Jianghan Plain suffered serious floods. At that time, the League of Nations sent a delegation to Wuhan for inspection. He accompanied the delegation back to his hometown, saw with his own eyes the situation in the Soviet area after the retreat of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, and drafted an inspection report on the Honghu Soviet area in English for the delegation, which truthfully reflected all kinds of good things that Honghu farmers said * * * had done for the people, as well as the massacre of the Kuomintang encirclement and suppression of Qing Xiang. Yang Xiandong himself received a profound education.

1In August, 934, with the support of Li, a famous figure in Hubei, Yang Xiandong made up his mind to go abroad to study and was admitted to the Graduate School of Cornell University in the United States, specializing in cotton variety improvement. A year later, he wrote the paper "The Regional System of Pure Cotton in the United States and the Possibility of Adapting to China" and obtained the Master of Science degree. Then, in order to have a deeper understanding of the achievements of cotton research, production and marketing in the United States, he went to Texas A&M College, the main cotton-producing area in the southern United States, and made a field trip to various cotton-producing areas nearby. 1937 in may, 34-year-old yang xiandong published his paper "the development of cotton classification standards in the United States", which was well received by his tutor and experts and scholars of the United States department of agriculture, and obtained a doctorate in philosophy from Cornell university in the United States.

During his stay in the United States, Yang Xiandong met Fanny Price, an undergraduate student at Cornell University, and got in touch with communist party in the United States through her. Under her guidance, he studied the English Declaration and other Marx's works. 1June, 937, introduced to the United States. On his way back to China via Europe, he visited the Soviet Union and was warmly received by the Soviet Minister of Agriculture.

The day when yang xian returned to Peiping was the day when the Lugouqiao Incident broke out, and the national disaster was imminent. As a doctor studying in the United States, he went to Nanjing to show his intention to serve the country to the National Government, and was appointed as the Major General Commissioner of the Agricultural Products Regulation Committee of the Central Military Commission and the Director of Verification in Shaanxi, Henan and Hubei provinces. On the eve of the fall of Nanjing, it withdrew to Wuhan with the National Government. 1in the autumn of 937, the Japanese invaders attacked Wuhan, and the national government moved from Wuhan to Chongqing. He resolutely stayed in Hubei, joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by Dong, and worked under the leadership of the Party under the cover of social occupation. 1937 held a training course for rural cooperative personnel with Tao Zhu in the name of Hubei Provincial Construction Department in Yingcheng Tang Chi, 1938 held a cotton workshop in northern Hubei in Xiangyang, and served as the director. 1939, he also held a handicraft training institution in Cihe, Gucheng, as the director. In order to win the victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, thousands of anti-Japanese cadres were trained, most of whom joined the New Fourth Army. Later, he served as the director of the Agricultural Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the village director of Fancheng Branch of General Village in Fu Sheng, the member of Hubei Agricultural Products Promotion Committee of the Executive Yuan, the technical director of Sichuan Agricultural Improvement Institute, and the agricultural consultant of American economic war in Chongqing, and did a lot of work beneficial to the war of resistance and the people.

After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Yang Xiandong, like most people in China, hoped that China would see a new situation of peaceful construction, heal the wounds of war as soon as possible, restore and develop industrial and agricultural production, and let the people live and work in peace and contentment.

1945 10 Yang Xiandong was appointed Deputy Director and Acting Director of Hubei Branch of the Relief Department of the Executive Yuan of the Kuomintang Government, and returned to Wuhan after the recovery. He continued to get in touch with Dong, the representative of China in the Kuomintang-ruled area, and made use of the principle that "relief should be treated equally regardless of race, religious belief and political party, as long as there are difficulties". He made great contributions to the fight against the enemies around Wuhan in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he sent a large amount of food and other relief materials to the soldiers and civilians in the Central Plains Liberated Area besieged by Kuomintang troops, and helped to resettle the wounded and sick, so that they could break through smoothly in the future.

1948, the war of liberation turned into a decisive battle for the National People's Congress. At this time, Yang Xiandong was transferred from Wuhan to Shanghai as a special consultant of Shanghai Food Emergency Storage Association. Because of his excellent work, he was appreciated by Weng, President of the Executive Yuan of Nanjing National Government, and trusted by Yang Chuan, President of Shanghai Grain Emergency Storage Association. He gave him the power of this purchasing and storage association and snapped up a lot of imported food. On the eve of Shanghai's liberation, he cleverly kept 20,000 tons of rice imported from the United States in Shanghai Racecourse, instead of transporting it to Guangzhou, as a generous gift to welcome Shanghai's liberation.

1949 On May 27th, the Organization Department of the Central China Bureau of the Communist Party of China called Yang Xian and appointed him as the Dean of the Agricultural College of Wuhan University. In the autumn of the same year, he was elected as the representative of Central China, went to Beijing to attend the People's Political Consultative Conference of China and founding ceremony of People's Republic of China (PRC), and was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture by the State Council. At that time, Yang Xiandong was 47 years old and young, but he thought that China was a backward agricultural country with a heavy burden and a glorious task. Therefore, with perseverance and enthusiasm, he devoted himself to the agricultural reform and construction in China, which promoted the development of cotton science and technology in China, the construction of agricultural science and education system in China, and the development of plant protection science and technology in China, especially the elimination of locust pests. And unite, love and care for the broad masses of agricultural scientific and technological personnel, establish and develop agricultural scientific and technological academic groups, and carry out academic exchanges and discussions on agricultural modernization in China. Yang Xiandong gloriously joined China 1956 and was elected as the first, second and third NPC deputies and the sixth and seventh CPPCC members.