China Vitae

Biography

Yang Hanxi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from Jinling University in 1939, received a master's degree from Melbourne University in 1949, and received another master's degree from Oxford University in 1950.

Yang Hanxi was a founder of new Chinese ecology. During the 1950s he provided the scientific basis for the investigation and design of the Hainan Island rubber forest and tropical forest. He presented the classification of manually planted fir forests, climate divisions and soil classification systems. He also developed ecological positioning observations and tests for fir forests, and cultivation technology of rapidly growing productive forests.

Yang solved several ecological problems in poplar forestation on the northern plain and in 1979 he advocated and developed the Chinese plant quantity ecology. Yang engaged in research on quantity classification, genera pattern, age structure, update tactics and dynamics of red pinewood of the broad leaf in the Northeast Forest District.

Yang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.