Pan Zhongli, 47, is from Xichangfa Town, Beilin District, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province. After graduating from Northeast Agricultural University with a master's degree, he studied in the United States from 65438 to 0988. I got my second master's degree from the University of Illinois and my doctorate from Davis University 1998. Immediately after graduation, he was appointed as the technical service director of the Far East by ADM Company, a famous agricultural product processing company. Subsequently, during his seven years working in the Scientific Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, he studied and solved many problems in food processing, such as saving energy, purifying the environment and improving the nutritional value of food. Notably, the new infrared heating technology replaced the traditional freeze-drying technology in fruit and vegetable drying, the traditional chemical enzyme inactivation in food inactivation, and the bus method in almond inactivation and rice pest control. Because of his outstanding contribution to food processing, storage and safety, Pan Zhongli became the first China scientist to win the hulbaart-rap bolt Award for Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Agricultural Research Scientist of the US Department of Agriculture. In 2008, Pan Zhongli won the American Young Scientist Presidential Award. In his speech at the award ceremony, President Bush praised the scientists who won this award as American elites.

Pan Zhongli's wife, Dr. Zhang Ruihong, is also an agricultural scientist with extraordinary contributions. In 2003, he won the Young Scholars Award of American Agricultural Bioengineering Society. They are also the only couple who have served as the chairman of the Overseas Chinese Association of Agricultural Biofood Engineers.

After living in the United States for 20 years, Pan Zhongli and Zhang Ruihong gave birth to two children. Pan Feng, a boy of 17 years old, graduated from high school and will go to university in San Diego this year. Pan Hong, a 7-year-old girl, is the apple of her parents' eye and smart. The husband and wife insist on teaching their children Chinese and educating them on China traditional culture.