BCYSA NEWS DESK: Yuan Longping, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is an outstanding agricultural scientist, and the father of hybrid rice.  Over the past 50 years, he has dedicated all his life to the development of hybrid rice and has fulfilled his purpose by developing hybrid rice and benefiting the people of the world.  Moreover, China and the world have made significant contributions to the development of food production.  He won the National Innovation Special Award, the first National Highest Science and Technology Award and the UNESCO "Science Award", "Wolf Award", "World Food Award" and more than 20 international and domestic awards.  He was even selected as a foreign educator of the American Academy of Sciences.

Academician Yuan Longping first solved three problems in his study of three-line hybrid rice.  Using "wild rice and remote hybridization technology of cultivated paddy" he found an effective way to cultivate the male germline and realized the germ-free line in 1973, the preserving and restoring line "three-line”; The powerful dominant hybrid rice has bred several combinations such as “Nanu2” and applied them to large-scale production.  In this way the yield gradually starts to increase.

Academician Yuan Longping solved some key technical problems in his 1989 study of two-line hybrid rice.  He proposed sterile marginal temperature indicators for selecting practical light-temperature-sensitive genetic male germlines and technical techniques for reproduction, which created the two-line method the research on hybrid rice came out of the low point.  Subsequently, it proposed and proposed the original seed production method of two-line sterilization line and cold-water string irrigation promotion and other large technologies.  This led to the success and popularity of the two-line hybrid rice research.

In 1997, academician Yuan Longping conducted research on super hybrid rice.  He designed a high-yielding plant type model characterized by a high canopy, short panicle layer, and technical route for medium and large panicle and super hybrid rice cultivation.  In 2000, 2004, and 2012, the target for China's super rice production in the first phase was 700 kg per meow, 800 kg per meow in the second phase, and 900 kg per meow in the third phase.  Lead the launch of the fourth phase of China's super hybrid rice in 2000, 2004, and 2012, with a yield of 1000 kg per mule, respectively.  At the same time, it proposes to increase plant height and increase organic yields based on the maintenance of the original super hybrid rice ideal plant type and high crop index.  Which was a new concept of super hybrid rice breeding.

In 2006, academician Yuan Longping proposed the use of super hybrid rice technology in response to the current situation of population growth and decline in China, producing the equivalent of 4 acres of land using 3 acres of real estate.  Which has greatly increased the current paddy yield and total yield, and increased the production of farmers.  The scientific concept of ensuring food security in the country, namely, the "three-year-fourth" high-yield project of super hybrid rice was first implemented in Hunan in 2007 and quickly spread to Anhui, Guangdong, Guangzhou, Henan.  The campaign in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and other provinces achieved remarkable results.  In 2011, academician Yuan Longping put forward the "two-part field or three-part field" for food security, the Liangfeng project, which was unanimously approved by the government and experts.

Yuan Longping has presided over more than 50 international hybrid rice technology training courses and trained more than 2,000 students with trainees from more than 30 countries in Asia.  He also traveled to India, Vietnam, Myanmar, and other countries for research and production of hybrid rice.  The development of hybrid rice for the benefit of the