Ma Shijun is from Yanzhou, Shandong. 1937 graduated from the biology department of the Agricultural College of Peking University at that time. 1948 went to the University of Utah to study insect ecology, and later obtained a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, which accumulated a wealth of insect knowledge.
195 1 year, he resolutely decided to return to China and repay his motherland with his knowledge. At that time, the country gave him a difficult problem that had not been solved for two thousand years: completely eliminating the plague of locusts on the land of China.
Ma Shijun and his team started this research. He traveled all over the locust-infested areas in China. Laboratories have been established in Hongze Lake, Weishan Lake, along the Yellow Sea and along the Yellow River.
Through these on-the-spot investigations, Ma Lao discovered the cause of the locust plague in China.
The frequent occurrence of locust disasters in China is due to frequent floods and droughts, which provides convenient conditions for locust breeding. In addition, the social instability, poverty and backwardness in China also make the locust plague at a loss once it happens.
On the basis of these scientific studies, Ma Shijun put forward a comprehensive strategy of "combining reform with locust control", which completely eradicated the locust plague that had harmed China for thousands of years.