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Ma Shijun (1915-1991), born in Yanzhou City of Shandong Province, was graduated form the Biology Department of Agriculture Institute of Beiping University (today's Peking University) in1937, and took up research work about agricultural pest in Shandong and Hubei provinces from 1938 to 1943. In 1948, he went to study the insect bionomy in Utah State University of USA, and obtained the master's degree in 1949, the doctor's degree in 1951 there.

When he came back to China, he established the first laboratory of insect bionomy. In 1980, he was elected as the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Besides serving as professor of Peking University, Nankai University and other universities, he was a researcher of Laboratorial Biology Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of Insect Bionomy Institute, researcher of Northwest Plateau Biology Institute, Director of Zoology and Environment Research Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honorary Director of Zoology and Environment Research Center. He had been the advisory of Environment Protection Committee of the State Council, the Council Leader of China Biology Association for the first and second session.

Ma was also a member of Harmful Insects Experts Committee of Food and Agriculture Organization and Environment and Planning Organization of the United Nations, a committee member of International System and Evolution Biology Council, and a member of Insect Association of English Royal Academy of Sciences.

Ma had published more the 150 papers and 7 works. He fostered 20 graduates and 19 doctors. He established important theories such as the social, economic and natural complex ecosystem and eco-projects, contributing greatly to the biological sphere of China.

As early as the 1970s, Ma put forward the theory of sustainable development and drafted the famousBrundtland Declaration: Our Common Futuretogether with then wife of Norway Prime Minister Brundtland.

With his profound knowledge, hard working spirits and outstanding accomplishments, Ma had become a master of biology, systematic biological theory, ecological control, and sustainable development theory, and the forerunner of applications of these theories.