He pays attention to cultivating scientific research talents of hybrid rice, and regards unity and cooperation as the key to success. He donated bonuses and set up scientific research funds and agricultural science and technology award funds; He unreservedly distributed the experimental material "Wild Abortion" to 18 research units in China, which accelerated the research pace of "three-line" hybrid rice.
Under his training and leadership, China's hybrid rice elites have emerged in large numbers, and the research results have emerged one after another, which has been in the leading position in the world for more than 30 years.
Personality influence
1999, an asteroid discovered by Schmidt CCD Asteroid Project Team of Beijing Astronomical Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences was named "Yuan Longping Star" with the approval of the International Committee for Naming Small Celestial Bodies.
In 2009, Peking University Starlight Group, Xiaoxiang Film Group, Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Zhongshi Tianquan Culture Development Co., Ltd. produced the film Yuan Longping, which tells the story of Yuan Longping, an academician of China Academy of Engineering and the father of hybrid rice, who successfully cultivated high-quality hybrid rice and eulogized his noble character of dedication to science, tenacious struggle and innovation.