Yuan Longping is the "father of hybrid rice" and also the "Grandpa Yuan" in the mouth of post-90s and post-00s. Although he has gone, these six classic quotations left in the fields are worth remembering.
Beijing News reporter Wang Fei photo
First, "My lifelong pursuit is to keep everyone away from hunger".
Yuan Longping has publicly stated many times that "my lifelong pursuit is to keep everyone away from hunger", and he did it. Yuan Longping devoted his life to rice breeding, which greatly increased the grain output in China and provided food for hundreds of millions of people.
In 1970s, Yuan Longping successfully developed the first generation of hybrid rice, which can be popularized on a large scale, and its yield was greatly increased compared with that of ordinary rice. 1986, Yuan Longping put forward the breeding strategy of hybrid rice: from three-line method to two-line method, and then to one-line method, the program developed from complex to simple but more efficient; From 65438 to 0996, the Ministry of Agriculture formally established the super rice breeding plan, and achieved the goal of 700 kilograms per mu in the first phase of 2000. In 2004, the yield per mu was 800 kg in the second phase, 20 1 1 year, 900 kg in the third phase, and 20 14 years 1000 kg, which was higher year by year.
Yuan Longping once revealed in an interview that the area of hybrid rice promoted in China abroad is 5.2 million hectares. If China Super Rice is planted in more than half of the rice fields in the world, the increased grain can feed 400 million to 500 million people.
Second, "breeding is to stick to the front line, so as to discover new varieties and get close to inspiration."
Yuan Longping seldom has his own time in his life, either doing experiments in the experimental field or on his way to the experimental field. It is reported that Yuan Longping was still doing research in the hybrid rice research base a few months before his death. On March/0/0, Kloc fell in Sanya Hybrid Rice Research Base and felt unwell. On April 7, he was transferred to Changsha for hospitalization.
Yuan Longping once said in an interview with the media, "I am not at home, I am in the experimental field; Not in the experimental field, but on the way to the experimental field. We don't have an off-duty system because my work is mainly in the experimental field. "
"When the rice blooms, under the scorching sun, my assistants and I stand in the scorching sun, step on the mud and bend down to work. The more it thunders, the more windy it is, and the more it rains, the more we have to go to the fields to see if the seedlings are lodging and which varieties can withstand several winds. This is no joke. We are doing breeding to stick to the front line, so that we can discover new varieties and get close to inspiration. " Yuan Longping said.
Three, "China has the ability to achieve food self-sufficiency, there will be no' food shortage'.
In 2020, under the superposition of COVID-19 epidemic, locust plague and extreme climate, global food security will face a great test. According to a report of the United Nations, there will be 654.38+300 million hungry people in 2020, and 690 million people around the world will go hungry.
In this context, some netizens are worried about whether there will be a food crisis in China. In this regard, Yuan Longping said confidently in an interview with Xinhua News Agency on April 7, 2020: "China is fully capable of achieving self-sufficiency in grain production, and there will be no' grain shortage'. I hope you don't worry. "
4. "To increase grain output, we can only rely on science and technology".
"Science and technology are the primary productive forces", Yuan Longping once proposed at the two sessions of the National People's Congress in 2009 that only science and technology can improve the grain yield per unit area.
Yuan Longping is a pioneer and leader in the field of hybrid rice research. He devoted all his life to the research, application and popularization of hybrid rice technology, invented the "three-line method" indica hybrid rice, successfully developed the "two-line method" hybrid rice, and established the technical system of super hybrid rice.
In addition, Longping Hi-Tech, with Yuan Longping as honorary chairman, also regards R&D capability as the core competitiveness to support the company's sustainable development. Maintain high-intensity scientific research investment for many years, and the proportion of R&D investment in operating income is stable at around 65,438+00%. In the past three years, the accumulated R&D expenditure is nearly 1 100 million yuan, exceeding the industry average.
5. "To achieve the goal of planting 1 100 million mu of salt-tolerant rice in China, the prospect is very bright".
In addition to tapping the "yield potential" of the existing paddy fields, Yuan Longping also turned its attention to the saline-alkali land of 65.438+0.5 billion mu in China to study the saline-alkali tolerant rice. It is reported that sea rice, also known as saline-alkali tolerant rice, refers to a rice variety that can grow in saline-alkali land with salt (alkali) concentration above 0.3% and yield per unit area can reach above 300kg/667m2.
Yuan Longping once talked about the vision of sea rice in an interview with the media: "I think the goal of planting 654.38 billion mu of salt-tolerant rice in China is bright." In fact, sea rice is also developing towards his vision at present.
From 20 12, Yuan Longping began to study saline-alkali tolerant rice, and used sea rice in beach areas of China as experimental varieties; On 20 17, Yuan Longping took the lead in establishing Qingdao Sea Rice R&D Center, and jointly established the first regional test cooperation group of saline-alkali tolerant rice in China with a number of scientific research units; In 2020, the Yuan Longping team carried out a demonstration of 10,000 mu of "sea rice" planting in ten places, and the average yield of 654.38+ 10,000 mu of "sea rice" was stable at more than 400 kg; On June 5th, 20021,1,the Yuan Longping Sea Rice Team announced that it had signed a nationwide project to transform 6 million mu of saline-alkali land. This year, the industrialization promotion and commercial operation of sea rice will be officially launched. It is planned to achieve the goal of 10 million mu of saline-alkali land improvement in 80- 10 years, and realize "1 0 million mu of wasteland will become fertile land".
6. "I have two dreams, one is to enjoy the cool under the grass, and the other is to let hybrid rice cover the whole world."
20 13 10 Yuan Longping mentioned his "two dreams" in a lecture entitled "My Chinese Dream" at Wuhan University. The first dream was that he dreamed of super hybrid rice in the experimental field, which was taller than sorghum, with ears as long as brooms and grains as big as peanuts. He and his colleagues and assistants sat under the waterfall-like ears of rice to enjoy the cool, so he called He Xia the dream of enjoying the cool. The second is the dream of hybrid rice covering the whole world.
"Dream of enjoying the cool under the grass" is the high yield, higher yield and super high yield of super hybrid rice. From 1996, "China Super Rice Plan" was put forward, to 20 1000 mu yield of 20 14, and then to 20 19,10/22 October, the engineering technology of hybrid rice in China countries was studied.
"Hybrid rice covers the global dream" is to hope that super rice will go abroad and benefit the world. Yuan Longping unreservedly taught its hybrid rice technology to the world to help overcome the problems of food shortage and hunger, and was hired by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as the chief consultant for the international development of hybrid rice. At present, hybrid rice has been widely planted in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, the United States, Brazil, Madagascar and other countries.
Beijing News reporter Liu Huan
Editor Zhu Fenglan proofreads Liu Yue.