Tribute to Yuan Longping: He is our eternal role model

It was he who invented hybrid rice to feed more than 20 percent of the world's population with only 7 percent of the world's arable land; he was the one who dared to innovate to fill the African desert and save countless people from hunger; and he gave up the chance to become the world's richest man, giving his patent to all mankind, just to make everyone fed.

Yuan Longping, a well-known scientist and recipient of the Order of the Republic and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, died at 13:07 on May 22, 2021 in Changsha, Hunan Province at the age of 91.

This is the common pain of all mankind!

Not so long ago, he was still ill in the research of hybrid rice, he and his team members, to explore the two-season rice mu yield 3000 kg project implementation plan. He devoted his life to the study of hybrid rice, dedicated to the human meal this matter, and the people to eat for the day, this is the big thing!

Ancient god farmers tasted a hundred grasses, now yuan Longping research and development hybrid rice, they are the chinese civilization' meritorious, should be celebrated by all the world!