Outstanding Contributors to China’s Reform and Opening-up series
Jan 17, 2019
Peking University, Jan. 17, 2019: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) plans to honor 100 outstanding individuals who have made great contributions to China’s reform and opening-up. Three PKU teachers, Wang Xuan, Li Yining, and Justin Yifu Lin, were on the list, along with eight PKU alumni, Yu Min, Wang Jiafu, Robin Li Yanhong, Zou Bihua, Hu Fuming, Zhong Nanshan, Tu Youyou and Fan Jinshi.
Tu Youyou (1930 - ) is a pharmaceutical chemist at Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, who received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura) and the Highest Science and Technology Awards. She discovered artemisinin (also known as qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, which can be used to treat malaria, saving millions of lives in developing countries in South Asia, Africa, and South America.
Written by: Wang Nini, Wang Xi
Edited by: Huang Yadan, Xu Liangdi
Source: PKU official subscription account (in Chinese)
