Jin Shanbao was born on July 2, 1895, in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. Jin entered the Fifth High School of Zhejiang Province in Shaoxing, where he then studied for four years. In 1917, despite a good grade, his family's poverty caused him to be unable to enroll in many universities, however, he saw an enrollment prospectus for the Agricultural Specialization Section of the Nanjing Normal College granting free tuition, and he decided to enroll in this school.[1]: 20–21 In 1926, Jin married Yao Bihui. In May 1928, he completed "Preliminary Classification of Wheat in China", which was the first paper on wheat classification research in China.[1]: 76 In 1930, Jin came to the United States to attend graduate school at Cornell University and the University of Minnesota.[2]: 8 [1]: 24
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