Recently, the General Office of Organization Department of CPC Central Committee issued the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the Selected Personnel in the Third Batch of National "Ten Thousand Taalents Plan". Yang Xinting, graduated in 1993 of crop major, Zhang Ruifu, graduated in 1994 of agronomy major, and Wang Xiaojie, graduated in 1994 of vegetable major were successfully selected leaders of technology and innovation in the third group of national "Ten Thousand Taalents Plan".

Yang Xinting, Ph.D., researcher. He is currently deputy director of Beijing Agricultural Information and Technology Research Center, deputy director of National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, executive deputy director of National Engineering Laboratory for Technology of Traceability and Application of Quality safety of agricultural products, and deputy director of Key Laboratory of Agricultural Information Technology of Ministry of Agriculture. In July 1997, he graduated from the crop major in our university; in July 2000, he obtained a master's degree in agronomy major of Zhejiang University; in January 2008, he obtained a doctorate in psychology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2002, he was picked for Science and Technology Star Training Program in Beijing. In 2016, he was selected as leader of young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation talents of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is an expert of the general expert group of the scientific and technological innovation development plan for agriculture and rural areas in the 12th and 13th Five-Year Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the first expert group member of the traceability system of meat and vegetable circulation in the Ministry of Commerce, a member of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Food Quality Control and Management, Member of the Youth Science and Technology Working Committee of China Agricultural Engineering Society, vice President of China Fisheries IOT and Big Data Industry Innovation Alliance, Vice President of Beijing Agricultural Informatization Society, secretary general and legal representative of Beijing Intelligent Agriculture IOT Industrial Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, and a peer review expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province. As an agricultural expert, he is mainly engaged in agricultural information perception and intelligent processing, agricultural knowledge systems and intelligent decision-making, and the safety management and traceability of agricultural products and food. He is the visiting professor and master supervisor of Tianjin University of Science and Technolog and Shandong Agricutural University, part-time doctoral supervisor of China Agricultural University, Shanghai Ocean University, East China Jiaotong University, Three Gorges University, Xiangtan University, Qingdao Agricultural University, and Jiangxi Agricultural University, editor of "International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, reviewer of Food Control, Transactions of the CSAE, Transactions of the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery, and Journal of Zhejiang University (Edition of Agriculture and Bioscience).

Zhang Ruifu, Ph.D., researcher. He is currently a researcher and doctoral tutor at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Regional Planning of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He graduated from the agronomy major of our university in 1998 and received a doctorate in microbiology of Nanjing Agricultural University in April 2004. Since June 2004, he has been engaged in postdoctoral research at the University of Hong Kong, Texas A&M University and the University of California at Davis. Since April 2010, he has been a professor and doctoral supervisor in the School of Resources and Environmental Science at Nanjing Agricultural University. He was selected as a new century talent in the Ministry of Education in 2013 and was selected into the Young Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in June 2014. He is the chief scientist of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences' microbial resource collection, preservation and utilization innovation team, director of the department of agriculture's key laboratory for agro-microbial resources collection and preservation, deputy director of the key experiment of high technology research on the resource utilization of solid waste in Jiangsu, director of China agricultural microbial species preservation and management center. As well as executive director of the Chinese Society of Microbiology, director of the Resource Microbial Special Committee, member of the Agricultural Microbiology Committee, member of the Chinese Soil Society, member of the Soil Biological and Biochemical Special Committee, member of the Plant Nutrition Biology Committee of the Chinese Society of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer, and member of the Organic Fertilizer Committee. He is also a member of the Seventh Agricultural Fertilizer Appraisal Registration Committee and an expert in the Steering Group on the Quality Construction and Management of the Ministry of Agriculture. And editor of the International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation and Journal of Integrative Agriculture of SCI magazine, and editor of the Journal of Microbiology. He is mainly engaged in rhizosphere microorganism and microbial fertilizer and agricultural waste resource utilization research. He has presided over many national and provincial-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the New Century Excellent Talents Program of the Ministry of Education, the Doctoral Fund Project of the Ministry of Education, and the National “863” Program. More than 60 SCI papers have been published in Current Opinion in Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, and other journals. He has obtained 1 US invention patent, 9 Chinese invention patents, 2 second prizes of National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 1 first prize of Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress, and 1 China Youth Resources Science and Technology Youth Science and Technology Award.

Wang Xiaojie, Ph.D., professor. He is currently a professor and doctoral tutor at Northwest A&F University. In 2001, he graduated from the vegetable major of our university. In 2009, he obtained a doctorate from Northwest A&F University. In 2017, he was appointed as a young scholar of “Yangtze Scholar”. He has been selected as a leader of scientific and technological innovation in national young and middle-aged talents group, and selected in the top youth talents support plan “Million Talents Program” of the Central Organization Department, the New Century Excellent Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education, and was the winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, as well as hundreds of outstanding doctoral thesis in China. He is mainly engaged in the study of the interaction mechanism between wheat and stripe rust. Important research progress has been made in the pathogenic bacteria pathogenicity and mutation host resistance. He has hosted 4 National Natural Science Funds and more than 10 national and provincial scientific research projects of the Ministry of Education, including 973 program and 863 program. He has published more than 60 papers on Nature Communications, Plant Journal and other journal in home and abroad, including more than 40 SCI papers. He has obtained the first prize of Shaanxi Scientific and Technological Award, and one national invention patent.

The national “Ten Thousand Talents Plan”, namely the “Special Support Plan for National High-level Talents”, is an important plan jointly launched by 11 ministries and commissions, including the Central Organization Department and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, covering a wide range of fields, involving many departments and long implementation period. It aims to select 10,000 outstanding talents, leading talents and young talents in the fields of natural sciences, engineering technology and philosophy and social sciences in the past ten years, and give them special support, speeding up the development of high-level innovative and entrepreneurial talents who will provide strong support to build an innovative country. The third batch of national “Ten Thousand Talents Plan” selected personnel includes two levels of five types of talents, totaling 1,635, including 720 leading talents in science and technology innovation, 367 leading talents in science and technology, 215 leading talents in philosophy and social sciences, and 138 outstanding youth talents.