Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) has nearly 10 000 employees, including over 6 000 technicians. Of whom, 49% of the employees have obtained master’s degree or above. Totally, 24 senior scientists of CAAS have been invited as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). Until October 2011, nine of them are alive and serving as the top scientists in the field of research, policy recommendation and consultation etc.