Yuan Longping, 1953 graduated from Southwest Agricultural College (now Southwest University), and 1995 was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering. An asteroid discovered by Schmidt CCD Asteroid Project Team of Beijing Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 was named Yuan Longping Star, and won the highest national science and technology award in 2000. In April 2006, he was elected as a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences, 20655.

Yuan Longping is a pioneer and leader in the field of hybrid rice research. He devoted himself to the research of hybrid rice and successfully developed the first and second phases of three-line hybrid rice, two-line hybrid rice and super hybrid rice. At the same time, Yuan Longping put forward and implemented the "Three Crops and Four High Yields Project", using the technical achievements of super hybrid rice, published 6 monographs in Chinese and English, and published more than 60 papers.

From 2065438 to July 2007, he served as the chief professor of Qingdao Sea Rice College. 2065438+In September 2007, Yuan Longping announced a new achievement of removing cadmium from rice. On April 2018 14, Yuan Longping expressed his views on genetic modification in an interview with Phoenix Finance in Hainan.

As for genetically modified soybeans, Yuan Longping pointed out that as long as they are genetically modified crops that have passed the safety inspection, there is no problem. Yuan Longping said that genetic modification is the future development direction of agriculture.

On September 8, 20 18, he won the life science award of "Future Science Award"; 20 18 12 18 the CPC central Committee and the State Council awarded Yuan Longping the title of reform pioneer, the reform pioneer medal and the research pioneer of hybrid rice.