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2021-05-24 04:35:18 GMT2021-05-24 12:35:18(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
CHANGSHA, May 24 (Xinhua) China on Monday morning held a memorial service to bid farewell to Yuan Longping, known as the father of hybrid rice, who passed away on Saturday.
Despite being a busy work day, thousands of people dressed in black showed up and laid flowers at the site before the service began at 10 a.m. in Changsha, capital of central China s Hunan Province.
The top rice scientist, who in 1973 developed the first high-yield hybrid rice strain, died of organ failure at 91 in Changsha.
The agronomist spent over five decades researching and improving hybrid rice, which has reached its third generation, helping China work a great wonder feeding nearly one-fifth of the world s population with less than 9 percent of the world s total arable land.
1st LD: Farewell to father of hybrid rice Yuan Longping
Xinhua
24 May 2021, 14:44 GMT+10
CHANGSHA, May 24 (Xinhua) China on Monday morning held a memorial service to bid farewell to Yuan Longping, known as the father of hybrid rice, who passed away on Saturday. Despite being a busy work day, thousands of people dressed in black showed up and laid flowers at the site before the service began at 10 a.m. in Changsha, capital of central China s Hunan Province. The top rice scientist, who in 1973 developed the first high-yield hybrid rice strain, died of organ failure at 91 in Changsha. The agronomist spent over five decades researching and improving hybrid rice, which has reached its third generation, helping China work a great wonder feeding nearly one-fifth of the world s population with less than 9 percent of the world s total arable land.
People mourn for late father of hybrid rice in rain
Xinhua
24 May 2021, 19:18 GMT+10
CHANGSHA, May 24 (Xinhua) Despite the raining weather, a large number of people on Sunday came to a local funeral parlor in Changsha, central China s Hunan Province, to pay homage to Yuan Longping, known as the father of hybrid rice, who passed away on Saturday.
Since 10 a.m., mourners have come incessantly and formed long queue in rain, holding flowers for the late top rice scientist. They included the elderly, college students and children with their parents, many of them from other cities.
Yuan, renowned for developing the first high-yield hybrid rice strain that relieved countless people of hunger, died of organ failure at 91 on Saturday.