Academic prizes awarded by CAS and national/provincial government in recent 10 years Name of Achievement Category Grade Awarded by Year Mechanisms of the formation of primary and secondary greyed paddy soils and their characteristics NSP 2 CAS 1991 Exploitation and application of micronutrient fertilizer ― a way for enhancing productivity in middle-and-low yielding fields STPP 3 CAS 1991 Models and technologies for development of the ecological agriculture in hilly slope land region of Taoyuan STPP 2 Hunan 1992 Effects of arable soil pollution on the growth of crops and the quality of crop products STPP 3 CAS 1992 Eco-technologies of breeding for tolerant rice cultivars of greyed-paddy-soil STPP 3 CAS 1995 Dynamics of water and soil resources and exploitation of hilly-slope land in Northern Hunan STPP 3 Hunan 1997 Models of agro-ecological regulation and safe-and-efficient use of Cd polluted faring land STPP 2 CAS 1998 The production and transformation of methane gas in rice ecosystem and its mechanisms NSP 1 CAS 1999 Sustainable agriculture development in the red-soil and hilly area of Northern Hunan STPP 3 Hunan 2000 Development and demonstration of high efficient and sustainable agriculture in Xiangtan city STPP 2 CAS 2001 Effect of heavy metal pollution on the growth of field crops STPP 1 Hunan 2001 Process of green house gas effluence from farming field and the techniques for monitoring STPP 2 MOST 2002 Techniques for the comprehensive treatment and sustainable agriculture development in red and yellow soil regions of Southern China STPP 2 MOST 2002 NSP-Natural Science Price. STPP-Science and Technology Progress Prize. CAS-the Chinese Academy of Sciences. MOST-the Ministry of Science and Technology.