DEFENDERS OF THE FIELD

Aplant protection scientist for nearly four decades, Wang Huasheng has been busy producing technological innovations to overcome farming trials and tribulations.

Wang is deputy director of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region’s Plant Protection General Station. He is also a deputy to the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC), the world’s largest parliamentary body, to which he can submit proposals on behalf of his community. “I’m honored to have contributed to the amendment of China’s Seed Law,” he told Beijing Review while attending this year’s NPC session in Beijing. The amendment went into effect on March 1, strengthening the protection of the legal rights and interests of owners of new plant varieties.

“The duties