sentences:  He founded the Maize Genetics Executive Committee (2000) and the McClintock Prize (2014).From 2012-2016, he was a 1000 Talents Professor in the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Kunming Institute of Botany.In 2016, he established labs at Anhui Agricultural University and the Yunnan Academy of Forestry to study the molecular genetics of tea ("Camellia sinensis") and two Chinese native oil trees, "Camellia oleifera" and "Malania oleifera".