2021-05-24 04:45:05 GMT2021-05-24 12:45:05(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
File photo taken on Aug. 19, 2013 shows Yuan Longping inspecting the trial plantation of hybrid rice at Guanyang County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, renowned for developing the first hybrid rice strain that pulled countless people out of hunger, died of illness at 91 on Saturday. (Xinhua/Lu Boan)
BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) Chinese President Xi Jinping has extended condolences to the family of scientist Yuan Longping, known as father of hybrid rice, who died on Saturday at the age of 91.
The condolences of Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, were conveyed by the secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee Xu Dazhe, according to Hunan Daily.
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