(Beijing Comprehensive News) There is "the father of hybrid rice)"Yuan Longping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, died of multi -organ failure in Changsha, Hunan, at the age of 91.
According to the "Xinhua View Point", Yuan Longping died at Xiangya Hospital at Central South University at 1:07 pm. When the hearse drove out of the hospital at 4 pm, the roadside had gathered citizens who came to hearing the news to send blooming flowers and farewell to farewell.On the road, drivers also stopped the vehicle whistle.
Before Yuan Longping's death, his family sang songs such as red plum blossoms around the bed.His daughter -in -law Ms. Gan said, "The old man did not leave a last word, but when he could speak, he was still hybrid rice ..." The interviewed medical staff also revealed that at the beginning of the admission, Yuan Longping asked the weather and temperature every day.Care about rice.
Yuan Longping will work at Sanya Nanfan Base in Hainan for three or four months each year. When the physical condition is good, you will get off the fields almost every day to check whether the number of ears per acre, the size of the valley grain, and the empty shell.In December last year, although the family was worried about his physical condition, he went to Hainan as in the same year.Because of his inconvenience, he couldn't get off the field often, but once, because he was worried that a scientific research activity was not well organized, he didn't notify the secretary, and asked the driver to rush over.
In March this year, Yuan Longping, who was 91 -year -old, accidentally fell at the base and was rushed to a local hospital. He was transferred back to Changsha in early April, but he could not afford it.
Yuan Longping is the pioneer of China's research and development hybrid rice, and the first scientist in the world to successfully use rice hybrid advantages.He was born in Beijing in 1930 and graduated from Southwest Agricultural College (now Southwest University) in 1953. He once dreamed that he was a pilot and a swimmer. However, after witnessing the famine in the 1960s, he decided to invest in agriculture.
Yuan Longping began to study hybrid rice in 1964, and successfully selected the world's first practical high -yield hybrid rice variety "Nanyou 2".The male infertility of the papers published in 1966 has begun the prelude to the research of Chinese hybrid rice.Its research results have been promoted and applied in China since 1976, which has greatly improved the production and overall production of rice.After more than 20 years of research, hybrid rice has been planted in large areas in the United States, India, Brazil and other countries. The annual planting area has reached 8 million hectares, and the average production per hectare is about two tons per ton.
He has won numerous awards at home and abroad. In 2019, he was awarded the "Republic Medal" of the Supreme Honor of China in 2019.
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The Chinese official news agency Xinhua News Agency issued a comment yesterday and proposed that it was sorrowful to the death of Yuan Longping, saying that it made the Chinese people in the hands and the world's grain supplies for the Chinese.
CCTV's Global Television Network (CGTN) and the Beijing News sent a news of Yuan Longping's death yesterday morning, but it was difficult to solve the anger of netizens and was criticized for "grabbing news" and "no moral".
