The reason for the death of Tibetan highland barley doctor Nima Tashi was that he had an unfortunate car accident while on a business trip in Ali. After rescue efforts failed, he died in Ali at 17:57 on September 5, 2020. He was 55 years old.

It is reported that the reporter saw on the official website of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences on September 7 that the page was turned into black and white, and the words "deeply mourning Comrade Nyima Tashi and Comrade Qin Aiqiong" were hung on the homepage of the website.

Nima Tashi, a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a counselor of the People’s Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, has published as the first author or corresponding author in SCI and domestic academic journals such as NC, PNAS, and BMC Genome. He has written dozens of papers, published 3 English monographs, 6 Chinese monographs, and edited and published 18 popular science books.

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Nima Tashi was born in an ordinary farmer’s family in the Shannan area of ??Tibet (now Shannan City). In 1982, he was admitted to the Department of Agriculture 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 started working in July 1986. In July 1992, he went to Chun'en University of Saskatchewan in Canada with excellent results for further study. After one year of further study, 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 his doctorate.

Since 1989, Nyima Tashi has been concentrating on the research and promotion of improved highland barley varieties. He has successively served as deputy director and director of the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Exchange and Training Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences. Director of the Institute, Vice President and President of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences, etc.

China News - Tibetan highland barley doctor Nyima Tashi passed away unfortunately at the age of 55