Professor Xie Lianhui, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, famous plant pathologist, academic leader of national key discipline - Plant Pathology. He has systematically studied Chinese rice virus disease in its pathogen species, distribution, damage, propagation, measuring, reporting and treatment, discovered a new virus of rice-rice bunchy stunt virus, and reported a new record of 11 viruses and a new record of 5 viruses in mainland China, which results are known as "making new contribution to the study of the virus in the world".