Yuan Longping had a well-known dream: "I dreamed that the rice I planted was as tall as sorghum, the ears of rice were as long as brooms, and the grains were as big as peanuts. My friend and I sat under the ear of rice to enjoy the cool. " .
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Yuan Longping: 1930 was born in Beiping in September, and his ancestral home was De 'an, Jiangxi. He began to study hybrid rice from 65438 to 0964. At present, he is the director of National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center and Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, a foreign academician of American Academy of Sciences, and the chief consultant of FAO. He has successively won the National Special Invention Award, the first National Highest Science and Technology Award and other domestic awards, and the United Nations Science Award, World Food Award and other international awards, and is known as the "father of hybrid rice".