Feng Zefang
On February 20, 1899, Feng was born into a farmer's family in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, Qing China.[2][3]: 227 In 1921, the year he graduated, the Nanjing Higher Normal School was promoted to Southeast University.He received his Ph.D. in 1933, with the thesis "A Genetic and Cytological Study of Species Hybrids of Asiatic and American Cottons", which was later published in the Botanical Gazette.After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, especially after the retreat of the Nationalist Government to Chongqing, he studied cotton in Yunnan.[4][1] In 1957, he moved his family to the Cotton Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, located in Anyang.