Yuan Longping's research on indica hybrid rice won the only special invention award in China so far; The Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government awarded Yuan Longping the title of "meritorious scientist"; The asteroid with international number 8117 discovered in China was named "Yuan Longping" star; He has won eight international awards, including the UNESCO Science Award and the FAO Honorary Award for Food Security. On February 19th, 21, the Central Committee of China and the State Council held a grand national science and technology awards conference, and awarded Yuan Longping, a researcher of Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and an academician of China Academy of Engineering, the highest national science and technology award in 2. On April 29th, 27, Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice in the world and an academician of China Academy of Engineering, officially became a foreign academician of American Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and attended the annual meeting of American Academy of Sciences attended by hundreds of top scientists from all over the world.
Since 196s, Yuan Longping's scientific research achievements have made China lead the world in dwarf rice, hybrid rice breeding and super hybrid rice breeding for three times. After the research results of the first two stages were popularized in China, the rice yield per unit area in China increased from about 4 kg to about 6 kg, which increased the national grain output by more than 3 billion kg in the past two decades.
In the early 197s, Yuan Longping published the view that rice has hybrid advantages, which broke the forbidden area of self-pollinated crop breeding in the world. International colleagues call Yuan Longping "the father of hybrid rice in the world".
Yuan Longping's achievements are mainly manifested in the research, application and popularization of hybrid rice:
In p>196, it was found that natural hybrid rice plants showed obvious hybrid advantages.
In p>1964, the viewpoint of utilizing the heterosis of rice was put forward, and the research of rice hybridization was started.
In p>1973, the sterile line, maintainer line and restorer line of hybrid rice were cooperated with others, and the hybrid rice with strong superiority was bred for the first time in the world.
In p>1974, we broke through the difficulties in seed production and developed a set of production techniques for indica hybrid rice, which made China's hybrid rice research in a leading position in the world and became the first person in the world to successfully cultivate indica hybrid rice.
from p>1976 to 1978, the planting area of hybrid rice cultivated by him reached 1.1 billion mu, increasing rice production by 1 billion kilograms.
in p>1979, hybrid rice was transferred to the United States as the first agricultural technology patent in China.
It was followed by a series of honors:
In p>1979, it was awarded the title of national model worker.
from p>198 to 1981, he went to the United States as the technical director of the International Watercourse Institute.
In p>1981, it won the first national special invention award since the founding of New China.
In p>1985, he won the gold medal of "Outstanding Inventor" of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization.
In p>1987, it was awarded the "Science Award" by UNESCO.
In p>1988, he was awarded the Ranke Fund Award by the Ranke Foundation of the United Kingdom.
in p>1989, he was awarded the title of national advanced worker by the State Council.
in p>1991, he was hired as the chief international consultant of FAO.
In p>1993, he won the Ginst Prize for Saving Hunger.
In p>1995, he was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering; Won the "Medal of Honor for Food Security" issued by FAO.
in p>1996, it won the first Nikkei Asian Technology Development Award.
In p>1997, he was awarded the honorary title of "Pioneer Scientist" in Mexico.
In p>1998, it won the "Japan Yueguang International Rice Award".
In p>1999, with the approval of the International Committee for Naming Small Celestial Bodies, an asteroid discovered by Schmidt CCD Asteroid Project Team of Beijing Astronomical Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences was named "Yuan Longping Star".
On May 31st, 2, the stock "Longping Hi-Tech (Information Market Forum)" of Yuan Longping Agricultural Hi-Tech Co., Ltd., named after Yuan Longping, was issued online at Shenzhen Stock Exchange. This is the first time that listed companies and stocks are named after scientists in China stock market.
In August p>2, Yuan Longping Institute of Science and Technology, an institution of higher learning named after Yuan Longping, was established in Hunan, with Yuan Longping as honorary president. This is the first institution of higher learning in China named after a scientist.
On February 19th, 21, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council held a grand national science and technology awards conference, and awarded Yuan Longping, a researcher of Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and an academician of China Academy of Engineering, the highest national science and technology award in 2.
In May, 24, she was awarded the Wolff Prize by the Wolff Foundation of Israel.
In p>22, it was awarded the honorary badge of Vietnam's agriculture and rural development by the Vietnamese government.
In October p>24, it won the World Food Prize awarded by the World Food Prize Foundation.
in addition, Yuan Longping is the academic leader of biotechnology in the national high-tech "863" plan, and has written papers such as Key Techniques for Hybrid Rice Seed Production and High Yield, Practice and Theory of Hybrid Rice Cultivation, and edited the book Hybrid Rice.
Although he is 7 years old, Yuan Longping is still active in the front line of scientific research and production. His hobbies after work are reading, listening to music and playing the violin.