He has presided over the national key research programs, the "863" program, the 973 program, the science and technology support program, the National Natural Science Foundation, the Prime Minister's Fund and other national key projects and a number of provincial and ministerial key projects. Up to 2008, more than 100 scientific research achievements have been achieved, including 94 hybrid rice combinations and their parents, and 42 varieties and patents, which have been widely popularized and applied, with remarkable yield increase effect and huge social and economic benefits; It has won 15 national awards and more than 60 provincial and ministerial awards, among which "Breeding and Application of Practical Photo-thermo-sensitive Male Sterile Line Peiai 64S" won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award; "Study on Breeding and Application of Excellent Inter-subspecies Hybrid Rice Jinyou 207" won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award. In particular, the indica hybrid rice successfully invented and cultivated by Academician Yuan Longping won the first special invention award in China, and Academician Yuan Longping also won the first national highest science and technology award, UNESCO Science Award, Israeli Wolff Award, World Food Award and other 16 domestic and international awards. 1995 was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering, and was elected as a foreign academician of American Academy of Sciences in 2006.
More than 10 Chinese and English books on hybrid rice have been published. Among them, hybrid rice breeding and cultivation, hybrid rice science and hybrid rice production technology have become authoritative works in the field of hybrid rice at home and abroad. Hybrid Rice and Breeding and Cultivation of Hybrid Rice won the 1st and 6th National Book Awards, and Research on Super Hybrid Rice won the 1st China Publishing Government Award. The professional periodical "Hybrid Rice" edited and published has great influence at home and abroad.