Last Saturday, the Republic lost two national scholars in one day. Academician Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", made the Chinese people "fill their stomachs".
Last night the mountains and rivers were shaken together, and now the twin stars are leaving Kyushu.
About academician Yuan Longping's ups and downs and persistence in his life, we wrote an article on SaturdayYuan Longping passed away! The person who "feeds everyone in the world" is gone I briefly wrote about it, and today I have prepared an intensive courseware to help everyone review Yuan Lao's achievements.
We also wanted to prepare an article by Academician Wu Mengchao, but the English articles we could find were very difficult and not suitable for students to read because they involved in the medical field.
There are no gods in this world, and there is no need to build temples, because every wisp of smoke that rises is a yearning from the world.
Before starting today's intensive courseware study of foreign journals, the editor will take everyone to review a movie clip of Mr. Yuan before his death. He once played himself in the movie "Yuan Longping". He was interviewed by foreign reporters and explained his two dreams in English: the dream of hybrid rice covering the world and the dream of enjoying the cool under the grass. When talking about the dream, Yuan Lao smiled happily.
The editor specially compiled English subtitles based on the video, bilingual in Chinese and English, for everyone to have a glimpse of Mr. Yuan's demeanor.
Now, officially enter the foreign periodical intensive reading courseware study, the original text has been deleted and changed.
Tributes Flow for Yuan Longping, Who Helped Save China from Hunger
Yuan Longping, China’s “father of hybrid rice” and hailed for his contributions to the country’s food security, died on Saturday. He was 91 years old.
The Chinese agronomist was known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and regarded as a national hero for boosting grain harvests and helping to feed the world’s most popular country.
News of Yuan’s death prompted a flood of tributes online and was a top-ranking topic on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
Born in Beijing in September 1930, Yuan began his career as an agrarian researcher in the 1950s. He often said in interviews that he was driven to increase rice output in China because of the hunger he had witnessed. “My lifetime pursuit is to ensure all people stay away from hunger,” he once said.
In the decades that followed, Yuan was associated with some of the most important breakthroughs in his field.
As early as 1964, Yuan theorised that a male-sterile grain could be crossed with other plants to boost yields, but it was not until 1973 that he cultivated the first hybrid rice thanks to the discovery of a wild rice species that made the breakthrough possible. Mass cultivation of the crop began in 1976 and proved key to China being able to feed one-fifth of the world's population with just 9 per cent of its arable land.
In 1995, he produced a two-line hybrid rice and was tasked by the government to improve yields still further. He later developed a single line hybrid rice. In 1996, the agriculture ministry tasked Yuan to start a program to breed “super rice”, plants of much higher yields.
Hybrid rice varieties have yields that tend to be about 20 per cent higher than those of conventional rice, and have been planted in 16 million hectares, or more than half of China's rice acreage. China could feed 70 million more people thanks to Yuan's research.
Yuan was awarded the World Food Prize in 2004, for “pioneering research that helped transform China from food deficiency to food security within three decades”.
China first exported hybrid rice to the United States in 1979 and has forged agreements on the technology — sometimes dubbed “rice diplomacy” — with several developing countries, including the Philippines, Pakistan and Madagascar. According to the China Nation al Hybrid Rice Research and Development Centre, about 8 million hectares overseas has been planted with the varieties.
In his later years, he was also involved in research in China and Dubai into growing crops in diluted seawater.
In 2019, Yuan was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the country’s highest honor, for his contribution to China’s food security and scientific development of agriculture, as well as increasing the world’s food output.
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