World laureates sound off in Hainan

Joachim Messing, 2013 Wolf Prize in Agriculture

After he arrived at Rutgers University in 1985, Messing initiated research on computational and structural biology and added to molecular genetics the regulation of gene expression and biomolecular interactions. He died on Sept 13.

"China has been doing well economically, and that has generated a lot of resources that are necessary to develop science bases. You have a lot of people being trained in the US, and they will come back to China. And then they have gained experience on how to produce technology and generate concepts and bring them back here. China has invested a lot of money in recent years in research."

"I have a lot of Chinese colleagues in my lab doing research in the agriculture field, and I'm happy that I can contribute to the Chinese agriculture research, which is very good. There is no doubt that it has been increasing. China is expanding agriculture research at universities in many provinces, which I think will lead to very strong development as people make contributions not only to China but also to the world."