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World leaders, representatives of international organizations and experts have been mourning the death on Saturday of Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, whose lifelong research in high-yield rice varieties help feed people around the world.
Today, we mourn the passing of a true food hero. Chinese scientist Yuan Longping saved millions of people from hunger by developing the first hybrid rice strains, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs tweeted.
He passed away today at 91 (due to illness) but his legacy and his mission to end hunger lives on, it said.
Having spent over five decades in hybrid rice research, Yuan, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has helped China work a great wonder feeding nearly one-fifth of the world s population with less than 9 percent of the world s total land.
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BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) World leaders, representatives of international organizations and experts have been mourning the death on Saturday of Chinese scient