The Rice Pest Research Team has closely focused its research work on major rice pest groups such as stem borers and planthoppers. It focuses on pest population differentiation, genetic diversity, resistance dynamics and mechanisms, revealing the dominant factors of pest disasters;  it develops efficient, long-term and safe comprehensive prevention and control technologies;  innovates new biological pesticides and combines new high-efficiency and low-toxicity chemical pesticides, creating sustainable management countermeasures and technical systems that integrate pest quantity and quality control.

In recent years, the research team has presided over projects such as Post Scientist of Stem Borer Prevention and Control in National Rice Industry Technical System, National Science and Technology Support Plan project, the National Agricultural Achievements Transformation project, and the National Natural Science Foundation project. The team is the first undertaking unit to 1 second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award; it is also the first undertaking unit to 1 first prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology Award; the team was authorized many invention patents. It has published many research papers in key journals at home and abroad such as Pest Management Science, Scientific Reports, Plos One, Pestide Biochemistry and Physiology, Acta Entomologica Sinica, Chinese Journal of Rice Science, etc.