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Biography

Zhao Qiguo, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province. He graduated from Central China Agriculture College in 1953.

During the study of tropic soil, Zhao Qiguo proposed that the Chinese red soil has both the opposite and unified features of ancient weathering and modern rubefaction processes. He determined that the penetrated water components of red soil and free iron, among others, might be used as the index of the rubefaction process and for the generation of red soil and quantitative classification.

Zhao summarized the development and utilization of tropic crops of rubber as the priority and the interrelation of red soil distribution and soil characteristics. He proposed the evaluation plan for utilizing the tropic crops based on the thermal conditions and properties of soil and provided the scientific reference for compiling the tropic crop development plan and distribution. With his summarization, Zhao proposed the fundamental principle of materials circulation for soil spheres, and introduced several plans and development schemes for the aerial treatment of soil, improvement of degeneracy soil and soil ecology and environmental evaluation.

Zhao is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.