China News Agency, Manila, May 26 (Reporter Guan Xiangdong) "Every time he accompanies Teacher Yuan Longping to inspect hybrid rice fields in the Philippines, he directly talks with farmers in English. Filipino farmers admire Teacher Yuan very much, and the scene is often very happy. These days Many farmers came to take photos with Mr. Yuan." Lin Yuqing, a Philippine partner of the China-Philippines Cooperation Tropical Super Hybrid Rice Project and chairman of the Philippine-Chinese Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines, was interviewed by a reporter from China News Agency in his office in Manila. With a few thick albums, I am immersed in the memory of Yuan Longping, a "teacher in life" and a transnational "year-old friend".

  "Ms. Yuan likes the Philippines very much and feels very comfortable in Manila. He likes Manila Bay, so I accompany him to blow the sea breeze. The tropical scenery of the Philippines is very good. We once went to Baguio for a walk together. He likes spicy food, and I often Take him to a Sichuan restaurant in Pasay. The dishes he ordered are very ordinary, such as Kung Pao Chicken. He plays the violin, swims, attends the gathering of the Philippine Chinese Business Federation... Mr. Yuan is casual and humorous, and is willing to blend in with the Philippines. life".

Lin Yuqing loves a photo on the Bogu shelf: "This is a photo of Teacher Yuan attending my family banquet with four generations of my family."

  Since his first visit to the Philippines in 1979 to attend a meeting of the International Rice Research Institute, Yuan Longping has visited the Philippines 30 or 40 times.

After nearly 20 years of investigation, Yuan Longping decided in 1999 to make the Philippines the first stop to realize the dream of "hybrid rice going abroad and to the world". Lin Yuqing is the Philippine investor of the project.

  "This is a gift written by Teacher Yuan in Chinese and English in 2003: knowledge, sweat, inspiration, opportunity. This gift has a great impact on my life and career." Lin Yuqing enlarged the gift and hung it in a prominent place in the office.

That year, Lin Yuqing went to Hunan to visit Yuan Longping. This cooperation of "year-old friendship" seized the opportunity of the signing of the "Agreement on China to Assist the Philippines in the Development of Hybrid Rice" between the governments of China and the Philippines in 1999, which lasted three years and was completed in 2001 in the Philippines. "Tropical Super Hybrid Rice" breeding.

  In 2003, Yuan Longping came to the Philippines to participate in the Hybrid Rice Harvest Festival and wrote a comment for the new variety: “Xining No. 8 is a high-yield, high-quality, and multi-resistant pioneer hybrid rice suitable for planting in tropical regions.” Lin Yuqing engraved it on a golden plaque.

  At the entrance of the office, Lin Yuqing hung a message from Yuan Longping on October 5, 2015: "Raising good seeds will benefit the country and the whole country will benefit the whole country.

"Ms. Yuan wrote my name in the words. At that time, our'Xining series' tropical super hybrid rice was welcomed by Philippine rice farmers, and the Philippine Ministry of Agriculture participated in the promotion of planting. Therefore, I had a dream: I hope more and more. The cultivation of hybrid rice in the Philippine rice fields has enabled the Philippines to transform from a rice importing country to an exporting country."

  In the Philippines, Yuan Longping also encouraged many young people.

The famous Philippine poet Wang Yong treasures Yuan Longping's message to him on April 5, 2013: "Learning every day, working hard".

  In the past few days, there has been a wave of remembrance and remembrance of Yuan Longping in the Philippine Chinese society: the main Chinese media in the Philippines "World Daily", "Commercial Daily", "Lianhe Daily", "Philippines China Daily" and "Philippines Chinese News" have used eye-catching pages for several consecutive days. Relevant reports, social reviews, and memorial articles are published in length.

  Filipino Chinese poets wrote a poem.

Coconut sighed in "Food War-Dedicated to Mr. Yuan Longping": When a small seed/explodes underground/its power is far better than/an atomic bomb/human gastrointestinal/liberated/a new grain The seed of the soil/in the heart of love/nuclear fission...(End)