China News Service, Lhasa, September 7 (Zhao Lang) Member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Counselor of the People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region, Member of the 8th and 10th Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region Nyima Tashi was unfortunately involved in a car accident during a business trip in Ali. After the rescue was ineffective, he died in Ali at 17:57 on September 5, 2020, at the age of 55.

　　The reporter saw on the official website of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry on the 7th that the webpage turned black and white, and the words "Sorrowful memory of Comrade Nima Tashi and Comrade Qin Aiqiong" were hung on the homepage of the website.

　　Nima Tashi was born in an ordinary farmer's family in Shannan Prefecture (now Shannan City) in Tibet. In 1982, he was admitted to the Department of Agronomy of Northwest Agricultural University. In 1985, he was selected to study at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences for one year. He participated in July 1986. Work, in July 1992, he went to Saskchunen University, Canada with honors for further study for one year. In 1995, he was admitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a graduate student. In July of the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China. In 1999, he received a doctorate.

　　Since 1989, Nima Tashi has been devoted to the research and promotion of highland barley varieties. He has served as deputy director and director of the Agricultural and Animal Science and Technology Exchange Training Department of the Tibet Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Sciences, director of the Agricultural Research Institute of the Tibet Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Sciences, and Tibet Autonomous Region Deputy Dean and Dean of the Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.

　　As the chief scientist of Tibet's highland barley science and technology major project and Tibet's crop breeding, he led the innovation team to presided over the selection and breeding of more than 20 new highland barley varieties (lines), among which "Zangqing 148", "Zangqing 690" and "Zangqing 2000" have become Tibet The main planting variety suitable for planting in some areas, the new highland barley variety "Zangqing 2000" is currently being widely promoted in a large area of ​​one million mu each year, accounting for more than 50% of the Tibetan highland barley planting area, with an increase of 25 kg per mu, and a maximum yield of nearly 900 kilograms per mu. Highland barley has been promoted to new heights on a large scale, benefiting millions of farmers in the snow-covered plateau.

　　Nima Tashi once put forward a series of new thesis on high-beta-glucan highland barley variety breeding, waxy highland barley breeding, and highland barley health food development. He initiated and presided over the completion of the joint sequencing of the highland barley genome. The world's first complete genetic map of barley has laid the foundation for functional genomics research and molecular improvement of barley.

　　Nima Tashi has won the 7th China Youth Science and Technology Award, the 4th China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, the Chinese Outstanding Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, the title of National Advanced Worker, and the third prize of the Tibet Autonomous Region Science and Technology Progress Award. National-level candidates for the Century Hundred-Ten Thousand Talents Project, the second batch of national "Ten Thousand Thousand Talents Program" leading talents and academic and technical leaders of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The highland barley breeding innovation team he led was named China's national key field innovation team and national agricultural outstanding talent and its innovation team.

　　He has published dozens of papers in NC, PNAS, BMCGenome and other SCI and domestic academic journals as the first author or corresponding author, published 3 English monographs, 6 Chinese monographs, and edited 18 popular science books.

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