My lifelong pursuit is to free everyone from hunger.

——Yuan Longping On May 22, at 13:07, Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and winner of the "National Medal of Peace", passed away in Changsha at the age of 91.

Yuan Longping is the pioneer in the research and development of hybrid rice in my country. He is also the first scientist in the world to successfully utilize the hybrid vigor of rice. He is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice".

Since he began researching hybrid rice in the 1960s, Yuan Longping has created a super hybrid rice technology system, making my country's hybrid rice research remain at the world's leading level.

On May 26, 2014, Yuan Longping attended the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Seed Conference at Qinglong Lake International Cultural Capital in Fengtai District.

In his autobiography in his later years, Yuan Longping mentioned many times: "Scientific exploration is endless. On this long and arduous road, I have always had two dreams, one is to enjoy the cool under the grass, and the other is to cover the world with hybrid rice.

"The dream has not yet been realized, but the old man who will never stop has left.

Not long ago, this great scientist who made the most outstanding contribution to the development of hybrid rice in our country and even the world was still doing scientific research at the Southern Propagation Base in Sanya, Hainan, despite being sick.

Together with his team members, he discussed the implementation plan of the double-cropping rice production project of 3,000 kilograms per mu.

Today, the old man left us forever with his hope for the last scientific research goal in his life and his infinite attachment to the hybrid rice career that he loved throughout his life.

Hong Fan's eight political affairs, food is the first.

Food is related to national security and people's happiness.

Over the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's food security development path has attracted the attention of the world. The foundation of China's food security is stronger, the foundation of development is deeper, and the foundation of society is more stable.

Nearly 1.4 billion Chinese people have not only solved the problem of food, but also contributed Chinese solutions to world food security.

Yiyi Jiahe, now my warehouse is full.

Food will be plentiful, agriculture will be stable, and prosperity will be peaceful.

01? Serve the country and the people, the great chivalrous man. On September 7, 1930, Yuan Longping was born in Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

In 1949, after graduating from high school, Yuan Longping went to Southwest Agricultural College to major in genetics and breeding.

In 1952, he signed up to join the Air Force, but he did not join the army because college students needed to participate in economic construction, so he continued to study in school.

In 1953, Yuan Longping had just graduated and was assigned to work as a teacher at Anjiang Agricultural School in a remote rural area.

Here, Yuan Longping has been a teacher for 16 years.

During the difficult period of three years of natural disasters, Yuan Longping guarded the agricultural experimental fields, but still did not have enough to eat and often went hungry.

Therefore, he secretly promised to "let no one go hungry".

To solve the food problem, we have to start with rice planting. Grafting was popular at that time, but Yuan Longping tried and failed repeatedly.

While he was frowning, the landlord picked up a load of rice seeds exchanged from another village.

This inspired Yuan Longping, "It is better to fertilize than to change seeds frequently." Isn't this the right path to take?

Although some people laughed at him, raising the topic of hybrid rice was based on ignorance of genetics.

But Yuan Longping decided to stick to the experiment.

He made full use of his spare time and searched for two years in the rice fields. His hard work paid off, and finally one day in July 1961, he found the first strong "natural hybrid rice".

However, the experiment still failed, and he was still not discouraged. He firmly believed that the "hybrid rice" path was the right one.

02? After 16 years of persistence, Yuan Longping finally focused on the rice fields every day, facing the loess and turning his back to the sky. Like looking for a needle in a haystack, he found only 6 male sterile rice plants among more than 14,000 rice ears.

In 1966, Yuan Longping published his first paper "Male Sterility in Rice" in the "Science Bulletin" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, challenging the world's authorities and believing that rice can be hybridized.

At that time, there was no superstition about authority, but this happened, and it opened up a new situation in hybrid rice research across the country at that time.

I thought there was a bright future in the dark, but I never expected that there would be constant twists and turns.

The experimental field was maliciously destroyed, and all the precious sterile seedlings accumulated over the years were uprooted. Several years of hard work and achievements were almost "destroyed."

"Those are my children! All the hard work and hard work I have put in over the years have been destroyed in one day. I feel like the sky is about to collapse." The man shed tears, but he was not sad yet.

He cried and searched for the remaining seedlings in the mud. He refused to eat or drink. He suffered from high fever and nightmares all night, and kept muttering: "You give me back my precious male seedlings."

Emperor Tian pays off his conscientious people.

He found the only five seedlings left in an abandoned well in the school, and Yuan Longping's clenched heart felt a little relieved.

Faced with such "natural and man-made disasters", the stubborn Yuan Longping gritted his teeth and continued to study hybrid rice.