China News Service, Beijing, May 24. At 10 am on May 24th, the farewell ceremony for the remains of "Father of Hybrid Rice" Yuan Longping was held in Changsha, Hunan.

With the exception of Hunan Province, people from many places in China sent a message of goodbye to Yuan Lao, expressing their grief.

At 10 o'clock in the morning on May 24, the farewell ceremony for the remains of the "Father of Hybrid Rice" and "Republic Medal" Academician Yuan Longping was held in the Mingde Hall of Mingyangshan Funeral Home in Changsha City.

People from all over went to the funeral home to bid farewell to Academician Yuan Longping for the last time.

The picture shows people sending flowers to Yuan Longping at the Mingyangshan Funeral Home.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Huafeng

　　At the side of Nanfan Tianbian where Yuan Longping has cultivated for half a century in Sanya, Hainan, people come to mourn them spontaneously.

　　On the same day, at the Hainan base of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center of the Sanya Division Farm, early rice has been harvested, and Tian Yang is waiting to be prepared.

The wall post with Yuan Longping’s inscription "Developing hybrid rice for the benefit of the people of the world" on the roadside became a gathering point for everyone's grief: yellow and white chrysanthemums sent by people spread to the side of the road; on the side of the rice field, a red plastic bucket was used as an incense burner. With burning joss sticks, there is a glutinous rice wine named "Yuan Jiu" placed next to them; some people did not buy flowers, so they bought coconuts and betel nuts from a nearby small shop to express their memory in a unique way in Hainan.

People came to mourn Academician Yuan Longping by the side of the rice fields in the south of Sanya.

Photo by reporter Wang Xiaobin

　　Located 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, including scientific researchers, farmers, civil servants, and sales staff.

　　The workstation was established three years ago to develop and promote "salt-alkali-tolerant hybrid rice" varieties and advanced technologies, so that the people in the grasslands can secure their jobs.

On nearly 1,000 mu of Xing’an League saline-alkali field, the yield of 533.95 kg per mu in 2020 far exceeds the “passing line” of 300 kg per mu.

The picture shows people visiting Yuan Longping Rice Academician Expert Workstation of Xing'an League to mourn Yuan Longping.

Photo by Qi Shen

　　In Guanyang, a remote agricultural county in the northeast of Guangxi, the average yield per mu of "super rice + ratooning rice" has been ranked first in Guangxi for 11 consecutive years, and Yuan Longping has been hailed as "Guangxi's first high-yielding super rice county" and "super rice cultivation level" First class".

Yuan Longping has been to the county six times.

The picture shows the people mourning Academician Yuan Longping on May 24.

Photo by Yang Zongsheng

　　In the past few days, local people have spontaneously came to the Shennong Rice Expo Garden to mourn Yuan Longping.

On the morning of the 24th, Shi Weijun, a local rice grower, was observing the growth of the seedlings in the field.

"Old Yuan let us farm well, we can't let him down."

　　On October 9, 2019, the workstation of Academician Yuan Longping settled in Xiaolong Village, Xinxu Town, Guanyang County.

As a student of Yuan Longping, Yang Tongzhou, the technical leader of the workstation, has followed him for more than ten years.

He said that he would turn grief into strength and continue to carry out the tasks assigned by Teacher Yuan with practical actions.

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　　(Participating reports: Wang Xiaobin, Li Yufan, Zhang Wei, Zhao Linlu, Yang Zongsheng, Jiang Fenghui)