Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”.It’s said that in China,we eat depending on “Two Ping” ---- Deng Xiaoping,who made the policy of System of Production Responsibility,& Yuan Longping,who invented hybrid rice.
Yuan Longping,who was born in September,1930,graduated from Agriculture Department in Southwest Agricultural Institute.He has been working on agriculture education & the research into hybrid rice since he left the institute.
In the 1960s,when China was suffering from serious famine,he came up with the idea of hybrid rice,which has a high yield ( or output).Ten years later,he succeeded in inventing a new species that produced a 20 percent higher yield than common types of rice.
Yuan devoted himself to the research into agriculture,& was honored by UNESCO & FAO(联合国教科文组织）.Although he is 74 years old,he is still working on the research into agriculture.