When I first met Yuan Longping, Du Dele felt that the old man was a bit "stubborn."

　　In August 2014, Yuan Longping came to the Dongying Sea Rice Experimental Field to check the growth of the rice. At that time, he was over 80 years old, and the rice fields were bumpy and easy to slip.

Everyone thought he would never go to the field again.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Longping picked up a pair of water shoes on the ground and walked in.

The entourage was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and quickly stepped forward to help.

As a result, he shook off the person who was helping him, "I can do it."

　　Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point

　　Reporter Liu Yunhe Feng Peiran

　　Praise him for being handsome, he is very happy

　　"Be stubborn and reluctant to accept the old", this is the impression of Yuan Longping from the Qingdao Sea Rice R&D team who has contacted him.

People who know Yuan Longping feel that it is his stubborn and unconvinced spirit that has led my country's hybrid rice research to the peak.

　　Yuan Longping is the pioneer of the research and development of hybrid rice in my country, and the first scientist in the world to successfully utilize the heterosis of rice.

　　Since the beginning of research on hybrid rice in the 1960s, Yuan Longping has created a super hybrid rice technology system, which has kept my country's hybrid rice research at the world's leading level.

He led the construction of the Qingdao Seawater (Saline Alkali Tolerant) Rice Research and Development Center, and Yuan Longping was also hired by the Qingdao Municipal Government as the director of the Qingdao Seawater Research and Development Center.

　　Zhang Guodong, executive deputy director of Qingdao Sea Rice Research and Development Center, recalled that with respect and admiration for his seniors, in private, they all called Yuan Longping "Old Yuan", but in front of him, they couldn't say that, "The old man is not allowed. "I am not old, I am a post-80s." When he was 80 years old, whenever someone called him, Yuan Longping always responded like this.

　　When he was 90 years old, someone called Yuan Lao, and he still stubbornly said, "Who is old? I am not old, I am a post-90s." Later Zhang Guodong and the others figured out Yuan Longping's temper and praised him for being handsome again when they met. Amused the old man giggling.

　　"Praise him as a handsome guy, he was very happy, and he took us to see the photos of him when he was young." In Zhang Guodong's view, Yuan Longping didn't want others to call him Old Yuan. In addition to dissatisfied with the old, he was more modest and low-key, and he was close to Yuan Longping. For ten years, he can't see the aura of celebrities from him, and he has been doing research in a down-to-earth manner.

　　Yuan Longping called Zhang Guodong and Xiao Zhang privately, but he would call him "doctor" to the outside world, "He cares about this very much, and Yuan Lao always hopes that more intellectuals will join the agricultural field."

　　When I talk about rice, my eyes shine

　　Every time Yuan Longping visited a place, no matter what leader was waiting, no matter how many kilometers he had traveled, no matter whether he had eaten or not, the only thing he would never change was to go to the fields first.

　　Once, Yuan Longping visited Dongying, and the local leaders were waiting to be greeted, but the first thing he did was to visit the rice fields.

　　"Old Yuan only has rice in his heart, and he has reached the point of infatuation." Zhang Guodong said, "He has a very happy life every day, and the people around him are easily infected by his emotions."

　　People who are familiar with Yuan Longping's unanimous evaluation of him are simple-minded and only devoted to rice business.

In Zhang Guodong's words, Yuan Longping is a very pure person.

I still remember the beginning of the acquaintance, in 2011, a group of people went to the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center to investigate the background of the rice breeding industry.

　　At first, Zhang Guodong was a little uneasy, but after the meeting, Yuan Lao didn't have any airs. "When we came up and asked where we were from, Yuan Lao immediately picked up a magnifying glass and looked at the map. "This latitude and longitude can be planted." Rice'." There is no too much politeness, simple and straightforward, and there is no sense of distance at all.

　　Before saying a few words, Yuan Longping said, "Go, take you to see my'baby'." The baby in his mouth refers to the hybrid rice combination he newly bred every year.

　　It takes more than ten minutes from the office to the rice field. A group of people walked and talked with Yuan Longping.

At this time, Zhang Guodong suddenly came up with an idea and said casually, "Old Yuan, you said that Qingdao can grow rice. If we set up a special organization in Qingdao to promote rice and contribute to national food security, can you give us some guidance? We overcome technical difficulties?"

　　At this time, Yuan Longping turned his head and looked at Zhang Guodong very seriously and said, "I fully support you, but there is one condition. Research can not be half-hearted." After that meeting, Zhang Guodong and the others returned to Qingdao and raised funds to establish Qingdao. Sea Rice Research and Development Center.

　　Although ten years have passed, Zhang Guodong still clearly remembers the scene at the time, "Old Yuan's eyes are very clear, and when he talks about rice, both eyes shine. As long as it is helpful to the development of my country's rice industry, he is particularly supportive." After that, every time there was a rice problem, just tell Yuan Longping and he would find someone to help solve it.

　　"Computers can't grow rice"

　　Yuan Longping is very humorous, loves to joke, even nicknamed the people around him.

　　When I first met Yuan Longping, Mi Tiezhu, deputy director of technology research and development of Qingdao Sea Rice Research and Development Center, was a little cramped.

When the person next to him introduced his identity, he called him Xiaomi, Yuan Longping smiled and said, "What is it called Xiaomi, it should be called rice." The people around him laughed, and Mi Tiezhu's nervous heart also relaxed.

　　Yuan Longping further explained, "Rice is the staple food, and we need to increase grain production." Since then, every time Yuan Longping introduces Mitiezhu to someone, he will say, "He is called rice."

　　According to the growth characteristics of rice, Yuan Longping goes to Sanya for five months every winter.

The house he lives in Sanya is Tongzilou, which is said to be three rooms, but in fact it is two dormitories with a corridor.

The furniture is also very simple, a table, a sofa, a TV cabinet...People around him want to help him improve his living environment. Yuan Longping always says, "No one is allowed to move, I live well."

　　Mi Tiezhu said that Yuan Longping loves this tube tower because it is close to the test field and it takes less than ten minutes to walk downstairs.

"He has to go to the fields every day, and he can go three or four times a day." Mi Tiezhu said. Yuan Longping often told them that young people must go to the fields, and they must go to the fields for agriculture, and computers cannot grow rice.

　　In 2019, Sanya hosted a sea rice forum and Yuan Longping was invited.

Before breakfast could be eaten, Mi Tiezhu drove to pick up Yuan Yuan.

Yuan Longping asked him if he had eaten, but Mi Tiezhu was embarrassed and said that he had eaten.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Longping said, "I must have not eaten so early, sit down and eat together."

　　In fact, there was no more rice left at that time, so Yuan Longping divided his bowl of rice noodles into half a bowl and gave it to Mi Tiezhu.

"I was so moved at the time. Abandoning the auras of the'Father of Hybrid Rice', the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the winner of the'Med of the Republic', Yuan Lao felt like a warm and attentive elder." Mi Tiezhu said emotionally.

　　Although Yuan Longping had already left, Mi Tiezhu did not abandon the nickname "rice".

Although it is a nickname, Mi Tiezhu feels honored. He believes that the name contains Yuan Longping’s feelings for rice, and it also entrusts Yuan Yuan’s high hopes for himself and the new generation of rice people. This feeling is passed on."

　　He always talks about "high productivity"

　　Many people close to Yuan Longping told the Qilu Evening News Qilu reporter that Yuan Lao had never said the word "dedication", but his actions were in practice.

　　Yuan Longping was 91 years old when he died, but he never really retired. He spent his entire life working to increase rice production to ensure national food security. Even in the hospital bed, he never let go of the rice business.

　　The last time Zhang Guodong saw Yuan Longping was in April last year, one month before Yuan Lao died. At that time, he could not get out of bed due to a leg injury and was very weak.

　　Zhang Guodong and his party only had ten minutes to visit. The first time they met, Yuan Longping asked, "How are you all? How is the growth of rice this year? How is the promotion of sea rice?"

　　Yuan Longping has two dreams, one is the dream of enjoying the coolness under the grass, "The super rice in our test field grows as high as sorghum, so I will sit under the ears of rice with my assistant to enjoy the coolness"; the second is the hybrid rice covering the world. dream.

According to statistics, there are 150 million hectares of rice fields in the world, but less than 10% of hybrid rice. If half of them are planted with hybrid rice, it can feed 400 to 500 million more people.

　　Although Yuan Longping has passed away, his dream is still going on.

　　"In the final analysis, these two dreams are to continuously increase food production and solve the problem of hunger." Zhang Guodong said, "For our sea rice team, Yuan Lao hopes that'billion acres of deserted beaches will become good fields.'"

　　In recent years, Yuan Longping has noticed that a large number of saline-alkali land has been abandoned in my country’s Bohai Rim and Jiangsu coastal areas. More than 10 million acres of land in Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam are contaminated by seawater intrusion and cannot be planted. It is an important way to ensure increased grain production and food security.

　　Academician Yuan Longping described the prospects for the promotion of "sea rice" on different occasions, that is, to promote the cultivation of 100 million mu of "sea rice", and based on the minimum yield of 300 kg per mu, the annual grain output can be increased by 30 billion kg and an additional 80 million people can be fed.

　　In response to Yuan Longping's vision of "100 million mu of barren beaches to become good land", the Qingdao Sea Rice Research and Development Center proposed a ten-thousand-hundred project, which has already achieved 100,000 mu and is expected to expand to 1 million mu in 2022.

　　On October 17 this year, in the 2021 double-cropping high-yield experimental base in the southern rice area of ​​Hengyang, Hunan, the field measurement results of the agricultural expert group showed that the double-cropping rice yield per mu reached 1603.9 kg.

The double-cropping rice yield per mu in the same ecological area has exceeded 1,500 kg for two consecutive years, which means that the research goal proposed by Academician Yuan Longping during his lifetime has been achieved.

　　Yuan Longping never said that he was satisfied with the yield of rice per mu.

Zhang Guodong said, "What he says is always high-yield, high-yield, and high-yield. Even though Yuan Lao is gone, we will continue his dream."