2021-05-24 04:40:36 GMT2021-05-24 12:40:36(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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Farewell, Yuan Longping, ‘father of hybrid rice’
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People line up to pay homage to deceased Chinese agronomist Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, at the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center in China’s Changsha City, a major workplace of the top scientist, May 23, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Huafeng)
The globally renowned Chinese agronomist passed away at 13:07 BJT on Saturday at the age of 91.
The top Chinese scientist, who had developed the first hybrid rice strain that pulled countless people out of hunger, died of illness in a hospital in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province.
Having spent over five decades in hybrid rice research, the academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering had helped China achieve a great wonder feeding nearly one-fifth of the world s population with less than 9 percent of the world s total land.