China News Service, Hohhot, May 24th, title: People on the grasslands bid farewell to Yuan Longping: "Seed Spirit" is passed on from generation to generation
China News Service reporter Zhang Wei
On May 22, Yuan Longping, winner of the "Father of Hybrid Rice" and "Republic Medal" and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, died of illness in Changsha, Hunan at the age of 91.
On May 24, a farewell ceremony for Yuan Longping's remains was held at the Funeral Home in Mingyangshan, Changsha.
Starting on the 23rd, over 100,000 citizens of Changsha went spontaneously to mourn the people of Sri Lanka in the rain, and they poured out a city of flowers for one person.
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The picture shows the mature rice in the saline-alkali field in Xing'an League.
Photo courtesy of Yuan Longping Rice Academician Expert Workstation of Xing'an League
People on the grassland thousands of miles away are also thinking about this lovely old man, the "fortune star" of the grassland.
On the 24th, in the lobby on the first floor of the Yuan Longping Rice Academician Expert Workstation in Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local people spontaneously came to express their grief.
"Now it is the'planting month' of Xing'an League. This is the seed and hope that Yuan Lao left us." Local citizen Wang Bingbing gently placed the chrysanthemum in his hand in front of the portrait of Academician Yuan Longping, tears dripping on the petals.
The profound feelings between Academician Yuan Longping and the people of the grassland originated three years ago.
In order to develop and promote the "salt-alkali-tolerant hybrid rice" varieties and advanced technologies, so that the grassland people can hold their jobs, on October 16, 2018, the Yuan Longping Rice Academician Expert Workstation was inaugurated and established in Ulanhot City, Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The reporter vaguely remembered that when he learned that Yuan Longping had come to the grassland with the seeds of hope, the people surrounded the unveiling scene three stories inside and three outside. Everyone craned their necks and waited for the old man who gave the "ration".
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The picture shows Yuan Longping once told his "grassland rice dream".
Photo courtesy of Yuan Longping Rice Academician Expert Workstation of Xing'an League
"After the introduction of the'saline-alkali-tolerant hybrid rice' variety and advanced technology, it is estimated that within three years, saline-alkali-tolerant rice can be irrigated with saline water with a salt content of about three thousandths, and the yield of rice can be increased by 100 kg per acre. It can increase the yield of high-quality rice by more than 10 million kilograms.” This is an agreement between Academician Yuan Longping and thousands of grassland children.
Tian Peng, director of the Xing’an League Yuan Longping Rice Academician Expert Workstation Office, choked for a few times. At the memorial service, Yuan Lao had a "rice dream" on the grassland: After the Xing’an League’s "saline-alkali-tolerant hybrid rice" experiment was successful, he could ask It is promoted throughout northern China, even to countries on the same latitude and in the same climate zone.
"Now, we are getting closer and closer to realizing our dreams." Tian Peng, as usual, reported the work progress to Yuan Lao earnestly.
On nearly 1,000 mu of Xing’an League saline-alkali field with a pH value of 8.8-9.6 and a salinity content of 5‰-6‰, the yield per mu of saline-alkali-tolerant rice reached 508.8 kg in 2019 and 533.95 kg per mu in 2020, far exceeding The "pass line" with a yield of 300 kg per mu.
"What you said was to increase production and income, get rid of poverty and become rich. These have been achieved, but you have gone." The farmer Yu Gengsheng, who is responsible for harvesting rice in the saline-alkali experimental field every year, bows deeply and expresses his gratitude and perseverance to Yuan Lao.
Yuan Longping named these salt-tolerant rice "Yuanmeng Rice", which means "dream fulfillment".
At the beginning of 2020, Yuan Longping officially launched the "Yuan Meng Project" in Sanya, Hainan, still concerned about the grassland: "In the next three years, in the next three years, Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia, will cooperate to develop 200,000 mu of saline-alkali-tolerant rice planting, and expand to 100 million mu nationwide."
Since 2018, Yuan Longping has devoted too much attention and effort to grassland rice. He personally selected 3 experts and 2 expert assistants to reside in Xing'an League, and jointly formed a scientific research team with more than 20 professional and technical personnel from the Xing'an League Agricultural Research Institute. The Xing'an League Sub-center of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center and the Xing'an League Experimental Base of the National Salt-Alkali Tolerant Rice Technology Innovation Center have been established successively.
According to official data from the Xing’an League Yuan Longping Rice Academician Expert Workstation, since the establishment of the workstation, the total area of each base has reached more than 6,000 mu, and the test materials have increased from more than 3,000 to more than 10,000. It is expected that 4 new rice varieties can enter the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region by the end of 2021. Approval procedures for major crop varieties.
Tian Peng said firmly: "We are the'seeds' sprinkled by Yuan Lao on the grassland, which will take root, germinate, bloom and bear fruit, and inherit his dream." (End)