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Today, are you willing to share this for this elderly man? Profile: Yuan Longping, born on September 7, 1930 in Beijing, a native of De'an County, Jiangxi Province, graduated from Southwest University, and now lives in Changsha City, Hunan Province. A famous Chinese hybrid rice expert, known as China's...

Today, are you willing to share this for this elderly man?

Profile: Yuan Longping, born on September 7, 1930 in Beijing, a native of De'an County, Jiangxi Province, graduated from Southwest University, and now lives in Changsha City, Hunan Province. A famous Chinese hybrid rice expert, known as China's "Father of Hybrid Rice," he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995; in 1999, an asteroid discovered by the Schmidt CCD Asteroid Project team of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was named Yuan Longping Star; in 2000 he received the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award; in April 2006 he was elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Macao University of Science and Technology, China. In 2011 he received the Mahathir Science Award.

Yuan Longping said of himself that he "is just a farmer who has grown rice all his life"; he has studied hybrid rice for decades and made outstanding contributions to increasing the people's grain production. In his twilight years, Yuan Longping continues to go down into the fields to carry out agricultural research. "Originally I only wanted to research until I was 80 and then retire and stop, but now I still continue to strive for a lifetime." Today is the 89th sui birthday of the elderly Yuan Longping. Share your blessings!





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