What is the status of Yuan Longping, the "father of rice" at home and abroad?

Mr. Yuan Longping is a pioneer and leader of hybrid rice in China and the winner of the highest national science and technology award. He also has a high reputation and status in the world. For example, Yuan Longping was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

No matter in which era or country, having a full stomach is the most important factor for social stability, so the hybrid rice industry in Yuan Longping has been highly concerned by the whole world. Different from transgenic breeding, hybrid rice is artificially selected, and varieties with comparative advantages are selected by continuous hybridization, and finally rice varieties with disease resistance, lodging resistance, high yield and high quality are obtained!

The research on hybrid rice in Yuan Longping has greatly increased the yield, and the technology has also gone abroad and spread to Southeast Asia, Africa and other countries, thus solving the problem of insufficient local grain production. For example, the average yield of hybrid rice grown in Madagascar and Egypt is twice that of local varieties.

The above-mentioned international cooperation has brought Yuan Longping a high international status and reputation. Therefore, Yuan Longping has won more than a dozen international awards in the world, such as the World Food Prize and the Wolf Prize. In 20 18, he won the future science award for his important contribution in cultivating new rice varieties by using new technologies.

In the early 1990s, Yuan Longping repeatedly declared that his election as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was unsuccessful. At that time, some people thought that Yuan Longping adopted the traditional hybridization method, which did not belong to the frontier field of life science.

However, Yuan Longping's work is still very systematic and scientific. Later, he was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering with 1995, but in 2006, he was awarded the title of foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences, which also proved Yuan Longping's reputation and position in the international scientific community.

From an unknown person to an academician of 1995 China Academy of Engineering, he won the highest national science and technology award in 2000, a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and a life science award of "Future Science Award" on September 8, 20 18! 20 18 12 the State Council awarded Yuan Longping the title of reform pioneer, the reform pioneer medal and the research pioneer of hybrid rice! In addition, in 1999, an asteroid discovered by Schmidt CCD Asteroid Project Team of Beijing Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences was named Yuan Longping Star! In these honors, we can simply understand his position at home and abroad, needless to say, because the eyes of the masses are still discerning!