鐘揚(yáng)是新時(shí)代中國(guó)科技標(biāo)志性人物，他忠于祖國(guó)奉獻(xiàn)人民、不懈探索追求的杰出科學(xué)家，是立德樹人、教書育人的優(yōu)秀教師，也是自覺踐行社會(huì)主義核心價(jià)值觀的先鋒模范。鐘揚(yáng)堅(jiān)持十幾年援藏，只為填補(bǔ)西藏的生態(tài)學(xué)植物學(xué)空白，為帶出一支留得下的學(xué)術(shù)隊(duì)伍……對(duì)于生命健康風(fēng)險(xiǎn)、物質(zhì)生活簡(jiǎn)陋、家庭疏于照顧、學(xué)術(shù)成果顯示等等，他都置諸腦后，用53歲的生命，做了別人100年才能做出的事情，直到以身殉職。他的學(xué)術(shù)人生以“持久的熱情和長(zhǎng)期的投入”，撒下了彌足珍貴的“種子”。

Zhong Yang’s achievements go beyond the reach of ordinary people. At that time, Zhong Yang took the lead in the world in proposing a new model of interactive classification data and a new measure to detect the difference of system-trees, and established an interactive classification information system based on the ontology of biological classification.