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Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90


Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90
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Rice researcher Yuan Longping, at center in 2017, in a field of hybrid rice in northern China.
Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed strains of hybrid high-yield rice that helped alleviate famine and poverty around the world, enabling farmers to feed a growing planet with fewer resources, died May 22 at a hospital in Changsha, China. He was 90.
The cause was multiple organ failure, according to the state-run People’s Daily newspaper. Mr. Yuan had been hospitalized in March after falling at a rice-breeding center in southern China, and reportedly continued to track the weather and monitor crops from his bed. ....

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Beijing Mourns "Father of Hybrid Rice" Yuan Longping as it Censors Critical Remarks


Posted by John Chan | May 24, 2021
This weekend, the Chinese public mourned the passing of Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist whose scientific breakthroughs in rice development helped to usher in the Green Revolution that ended famine in large parts of the world. Yuan, who was awarded China’s highest official honor in 2019, passed away on Saturday in Changsha at the age of 90. Throngs of citizens and public officials mourned his passing and celebrated his achievements, but authorities were also quick to censor criticism and arrest individuals who insulted him online. The New York Times’ Keith Bradsher and Chris Buckley
Mr. Yuan’s research made him a national hero and a symbol of dogged scientific pursuit in China. His death triggered messages of grief across the country, where Mr. Yuan slight, elfin-featured and wizened in old age was a celebrity. Hundreds left flowers at the funeral home where his body was being kept. ....

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