Yuan Longping, coming from the heavy rice waves in the fields, is a generation of scientific masters and a spiritual rich mine. He won the universal respect of the society with his style of perfect combination of scientific spirit and humanistic feelings, professional accomplishment and professional ethics, career pursuit and social responsibility, plot of the motherland and world mind.
For the sake of hybrid rice, Yuan Longping has been steadfast and dedicated silently for decades. At the beginning of the investigation, many people said that he had asked for it. He replied frankly: I am willing to suffer for everyone to stop being hungry. Poor and arduous research conditions, the threat of a major earthquake in southern Yunnan, political shocks during the Cultural Revolution, and thousands of failed experiments ... can't shake Yuan Longping's determination to study hybrid rice. He regards scientific research as more important than family and even life. Like a migratory bird, he chased the sun from south to north for decades, and spent seven Spring Festival holidays in Hainan Island in the first 10 year. Under difficult conditions, he suffered from habitual gastroenteritis and lost 10 kg. Colleagues are worried about his health, but he said casually, "As long as hybrid rice can be cultivated successfully, I am willing to give my life!" "
Yuan Longping pays attention to practice. He said that rice is not grown by books or computers, and he always believes that real authority comes from practice. "I am not at home, I am in the experimental field; Not in the experimental field, just on the way to the experimental field. " No matter the scorching sun or the wind and rain, he and his assistants insisted on going to the fields, exchanging their thinness for the fullness of rice and their darkness for the whiteness of rice. His persistence in the front line enabled him to seize the inspiration of science and forge a strategic vision. Yuan Longping is willing to be a ladder. He pays attention to cultivating scientific research talents of hybrid rice, and regards unity and cooperation as the key to success. He donated bonuses and set up scientific research funds and agricultural science and technology award funds; He distributed the experimental materials "Wild Abortion" to 18 research units all over the country without reservation, which accelerated the research pace of "three-line" hybrid rice. Under his training and leadership, China's hybrid rice elites have emerged in large numbers, and the research results have emerged one after another, which has been in the leading position in the world for more than 30 years. Yuan Longping was never satisfied. From the "three-line method" to the "two-line method", from the success of ordinary hybrid rice to the first, second and third phases of super hybrid rice, Yuan Longping has successively increased the rice yield per mu from about 300 kg to 500 kg, 700 kg and 800 kg. Now 77-year-old Yuan Longping is still old and full of courage. He said that he still has two wishes: one is to achieve 900 kilograms per mu in the experimental field in the third phase of super rice by 20 10; One is to promote hybrid rice to the whole world. Dade has made great achievements. By 2006, more than 5.6 billion mu of hybrid rice had been planted in China, and the annual increase in rice could feed more than 70 million people, equivalent to the sum of the newly born population in the world. Not only that, hybrid rice has been spread to more than 30 countries and regions around the world, with a planting area of more than 30 million mu. Therefore, Yuan Longping has been fully affirmed by Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao and other party and state leaders, and has also been sincerely praised by the international community. He has won many international awards 10, and has the reputation of "the father of hybrid rice".