The Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IPPCAAS), was one of the five institutes of CAAS first established in 1957. It is a national-level non-profit scientific research institute that specializes in crop pest research, prevention and control. The predecessor of IPPCAAS was the department of plant diseases and insect pests, and the department of pesticide science at North China Institute of Agricultural Sciences. In 1992, the State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests (SKLBPI) formally opened to public. And IPPCAAS was selected into the first batch of pilot institutes supported by the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program (ASTIP) of CAAS. Currently, there are seven innovation centers focused on monitoring and management of plant diseases, monitoring and management of agricultural insect pests, pesticide science, biological control, biotechnology for plant protection, prevention and control of invasive alien species, and monitoring and management of weeds, rodents and rangeland pests, respectively.

IPPCAAS has 246 employees, including 87 professors and 111 associate professors. Senior professional and technical personnel account for 83.2% of scientific and technological personnel. 194 faculty members hold Ph.D degrees. Among them, there are one academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, five Distinguished Young Scholars and four Excellent Youth Scholars awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, two winners of Science and Technology Progress Award and one winner of Science and Technology Innovation Award from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, ten national outstanding agricultural research talents, sixteen national high-level talents. These faculty members have formed a strong research team that has been highly recognized and played an important role in the plant protection field at home and abroad. Eighteen innovation teams have been established and stably supported by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

International cooperation platforms have been established including comprehensive platforms, i.e. the National International S&T Cooperation Base-International Joint Research Center for Agricultural Biosafety, the MARA-CABI Joint Laboratory for Biosafety, the MARA-CABI European Laboratory, and the Center for international agricultural research-Plant Protection Laboratory; joint laboratories with institutions from the United States, France, Australia, and Norway for frontier researches; two international laboratories with Laos and Pakistan for joint prevention and control of crop pests. We carried out over 100 international cooperation projects from various resources, which has helped to enhance the innovation ability and international influence, and promoted the “going global” of advanced green prevention and control technologies for crop diseases and insect pests.

In the recent 10 years, IPPCAAS has implemented more than 1000 projects supported by national, ministerial or provincial funding agencies, including 40 programs (60 projects) from the National Key R&D Plan, 373 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, three projects from the National Key Technology R&D Program, and 11 major GM projects. IPPCAAS has been awarded three National Award for Science and Technology Progress (including one First Prize, two Second Prizes), and 28 ministerial or provincial awards. Scientists has published more than 150 books and more than 5,000 research articles, over 3500 published in the SCI/EI indexed journals including prestigious international journals, such as Science, Nature, Annual Review of Phytopathology, Annual Review of Entomology, Annual Review of Plant Biology, etc.