Yuan Longping | |||||||||||
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袁隆平 | |||||||||||
Vice Chairman of the Hunan Provincial CPPCC Committee (6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th) | |||||||||||
In office January 1988 – January 2016 | |||||||||||
Chairman | Liu Zheng→Liu Fusheng→Wang Keying→Hu Biao→Chen Qiufa | ||||||||||
Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC (6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th) | |||||||||||
In office June 1983 – March 2018 | |||||||||||
Chairman | Deng Yingchao → Li Xiannian → Li Ruihuan → Jia Qinglin → Yu Zhengsheng | ||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||
Born | Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Dong Cheng, Beijing, Republic of China | September 7, 1930||||||||||
Died | May 22, 2021 Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China | (aged 90)||||||||||
Spouse |
Deng Zhe (m. 1964) | ||||||||||
Children | 2 | ||||||||||
Education | High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University | ||||||||||
Alma mater | Southwest Agricultural College | ||||||||||
Occupation | Inventor | ||||||||||
Profession | Agronomist | ||||||||||
Known for | Hybrid rice | ||||||||||
Awards | State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (2001) Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2004) World Food Prize (2004) Confucius Peace Prize (2012) Order of the Republic (2019) | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 袁隆平 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 袁隆平 | ||||||||||
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Yuan Longping (Chinese: 袁隆平; pinyin: Yuán Lóngpíng; September 7, 1930 – May 22, 2021) was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture.[1] For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice".[2][3]
Hybrid rice has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America, and Asia—boosting food security and providing a robust food source in areas with a high risk of famine. The technology allowed China to sustain 20% of the global population on 9% of global arable land, an achievement in food security for which he was awarded the 2004 World Food Prize and the 2004 Wolf Prize in Agriculture respectively.[4][5]
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