Yuan Longping, the famous Chinese agronomist died on Saturday at the age of 91. The Chinese agronomist was famous for (develop) the first hybrid rice varieties (杂交水稻品种) in the 1970s and regarded as a hero for many of his (achieve). People in China were so sad they went on streets in Changsha to say goodbye to him.
Yuan, known the "father of hybrid rice", had given his life to the research of hybrid rice, which helped China to feed nearly one-fifth of the world's population with only about 7 percent of the world's land.
Born in Beijing in 1930, Yuan (success) in growing the world's first high-yielding hybrid rice strain in 1973 because he knew the (important) of food in China.
For the next forty years, he continued to research and achieving higher and higher output, which could help to make a big difference Chinese people's life. He still worked in the fields of resting at home even though he was ninety.
On September 29, 2019, Yuan was awarded the "Medal of the Republic," the (high) honor (荣誉) in the country because of what he did for China.
Yuan once said he had two dreams - One was to 4tenjoy the cool under the rice crops taller than men" and the was that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the food problem.
