Recently, the Shandong Provincial People's government issued the fourth Shandong Provincial patent award notice. Ten people won the title of "outstanding inventor in Shandong" and 100 patents won the Shandong Provincial Patent Award. SDAU won "1+1" again, and Professor Xuesen Chen was awarded the title of "outstanding inventor in Shandong"; the patent for invention "a new controllable biodegradable agricultural film" presided over and completed by Professor Tangyuan Ning won the second prize of Shandong patent.

With "quality breeding" as the main line, Professor Xuesen Chen led the team to concentrate on the evaluation, mining and innovative utilization of Xinjiang deciduous fruit tree quality breeding gene bank for nearly 40 years, and achieved systematic innovation results, achieved a breakthrough in breeding theory, technology and varieties, won 1 international  patent for invention, 37 National  patent for inventions, 6 utility model patents, 4 appearance patents, 17 improved fruit varieties and 11 new plant variety rights. What is more valuable is that he gave more than 40 patented technologies and new varieties of fruit trees to fruit farmers free of charge, making important contributions to the high-quality development of science and technology, industry and Rural Revitalization of deciduous fruit trees in China. In 2021, Professor Xuesen Chen was rated as the national advanced individual for poverty alleviation.

The patent for invention "a new type of controllable biodegradable agricultural film" is the first to use the combination and optimized formula of a variety of biodegradable materials in film production. The thickness of the developed film is reduced from 0.015mm to 0.006mm-0.008mm to achieve thinness. The degradation period is adjustable and controllable within 42-102 days, and the differential degradation period of multiple film strips can reach 50 days, The function of ordinary mulching film has changed from "increasing temperature and preserving moisture, difficult to recover" to "regulating temperature and moisture, and biodegradation", which has greatly reduced the "white pollution" of ordinary mulching film, with significant economic, social and ecological benefits, leading the upgrading of agricultural film products.

Professor Tangyuan Ning observed the use of plastic film

The Shandong Provincial Patent Award is selected every two years, including the Shandong Provincial Patent special award, the first prize, the second prize, the third prize and the Shandong outstanding inventor award. In 2015, with the approval of the provincial government, the Shandong Provincial Patent Award was listed as a government award.