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China’s new rice varieties, “157” and “X56”, recorded a yield of 10,613.4 kilograms and 10,537.5 kilograms per hectare respectively in Xing’an League, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Monday.
Rice yield of high quality rice in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reached 700 kilograms per mu (666 square meters) at Yuan Longping Workstation in Hinggan League, and achieved the late academician’s goal of rice production with high yield and high quality in the cold area.
Top hybrid rice scientist lifts hundreds of millions out of hunger globally
Yang Sheng is a chief reporter at the Global Times covering Chinese politics, diplomacy and military.
Yang Sheng, Lou Kang and Lin Xiaoyi Published: May 23, 2021 11:23 PM Updated: May 24, 2021 12:33 AM
Yuan Longping Photo: VCG
Students present flowers in front of a statue of Yuan Longping at Southwest University in southwest China s Chongqing on Sunday. Yuan, renowned for developing the first hybrid rice strain that relieved countless people of hunger, died of organ failure at 91 on Saturday. Yuan graduated from the Southwest Agricultural College (now the Southwest University) in 1953. Photo: cnsphoto
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By Lin Xiaoyi Published: May 23, 2021 07:46 PM
More than 100,000 people come to bid farewell to Yuan Longping in rain at Mingyangshan Funeral Home in Changsha, Central China s Hunan Province on Sunday. Photo: Cui Meng/GTThroughout Changsha in Central China s Hunan Province, the chrysanthemums that are used to send condolences were sold out. In front of Mingyangshan Funeral Home, more than 100,000 people lined up in the rain to lay flowers in memory of Yuan Longping, a renowned Chinese agronomist dubbed the father of hybrid rice. The number of people continued to grow and stretched for several kilometers.
Yuan Longping at a rice field in Liande Village in South China s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in August 2017. Photo: ICAfter the news that Yuan passed away on Saturday at the age of 91, countless Changsha residents flocked to Xiangya Hospital to say a final goodbye to Yuan, as the hearse carrying his remains drove away. Along the motorway where th