Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, has made great contributions to mankind. How big is his scientific research achievement?

As the father of hybrid rice, Yuan Longping devoted his life to the research of hybrid rice technology. He invented three-line hybrid rice, successfully developed two-line hybrid rice and established super hybrid rice system, which made outstanding contributions to China's food security, agricultural development and world food supply.

Yuan Longping was born in Beijing. His university is in Southwest Agricultural College, which is now Chongqing Southwest University. After graduating from Southwest Agricultural College, he obeyed the unified distribution at that time and went to teach in a certain area of Huaihua Province, Hunan Province. Then, when he was a teacher at Anjiang Agricultural College in Hunan, he happened to find a special shape of rice in the experimental field of the agricultural school. As a teacher at that time, facing the severe famine at that time, he was determined to use agricultural science to overcome hunger. Since then, the cause of rice male sterility has begun.

1987, three students in Yuan Longping discovered a special photo-sensitive sterile rice in the experimental field of Anjiang residual rice. The sterility rate and sterility degree of this rice reached an astonishing 100%. This achievement made the hybrid rice successfully transition from three-line method to two-line method. It was also in this year that Yuan Longping once again put forward the development strategy of hybrid rice.

1987, a scientific research team with the theme of two-line hybrid rice began a nationwide collaborative research. After 9 years' efforts, the yield and quality of two-line hybrid rice are better than that of ordinary rice, and the technology of two-line hybrid rice in China has maintained the world leading level.

1997, Yuan Longping put forward the model of improving photosynthetic efficiency of high-yield hybrid rice, which started the research of super hybrid rice in China. At that time, it was a world super problem. However, Yuan Longping's team has been persistent in tackling difficulties, and finally created a high-yield record of 1 137.5 kg per mu in Yongsheng, Yunnan. After that, the first phase of super hybrid rice was promoted to 30 million mu.

Following the success of the first super hybrid rice, Yuan Longping team also started the research on the second, third and fourth super hybrid rice. Finally, in September of 20 13, the fourth super hybrid rice demonstration field achieved a record of 988. 1 kg per 100 mu, which is a world record and has made great contributions to the world hybrid rice level in China.

Mr. Yuan Longping loved the motherland and benefited the people all his life. He is the pioneer of hybrid rice in China, and can be said to be a contemporary Shennong. His perseverance and strong will are worth learning from everyone in contemporary China.