In 1953, Yuan Longping graduated from university and was assigned to Anjiang Agricultural School in Qianyang County, Hunan Province as a teacher. After registration, he was assigned to teach Russian in the Department of Literature and History, and a year later he was transferred to the Department of Genetics and Breeding, where he taught basic courses in botany, genetics and breeding. Because of the lack of food in the country, he first engaged in a research project on sweet potato grafting, that is, grafting "moonshine flowers" onto sweet potatoes. But his research ended in failure.
After that, he turned to the study of hybrid rice. On February 28, 1966, his ** "Male Infertility of Rice" was published in the academic journal "Science Bulletin" sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This article has been valued by Zhao Shishi, director of the Ninth Bureau of the State Science and Technology Commission, so that his scientific research has been supported. In June 1967, the school where he worked, the Qianyang District Agricultural School (formerly Anjiang Agricultural School), established a scientific research group on male sterility in rice, and he became the head of the scientific research group.
In the spring of 1971, the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences established a hybrid rice research cooperation group, and Yuan Longping transferred the work of the cooperation group, and since then he has left the agricultural school where he has worked for 18 years. Later, with the progress of his research, he received more and more attention and support, such as December 22, 1975, he went to Beijing to report to the then vice premier Hua Guohua, and listened to him carefully for two hours, and then immediately made a decision: ** took out 1.5 million yuan and 8 million catties of grain indicators to support the promotion of hybrid rice, of which 1.2 million yuan was given to Hunan as compensation for the transfer of seeds, and 300,000 yuan was used to purchase 15 Jiefang brand cars to transport "Nanfan" seeds.
After that, we all know that Yuan Longping's hybrid rice research was very successful, obtained major research results, solved the food problem for the country, and he also received a series of honors, such as being elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in May 1995;On February 19, 2001, it won the first "National Highest Science and Technology Award", etc.
Yuan Longping's experience is in line with the old saying - there is a place for talent. He was originally a very ordinary person, if he didn't work hard and succeeded, then he would definitely be no different from ordinary people in the future. So, for anyone, working hard is the most important thing. If you don't want to do something practical for the country and society, but only think about how to play tricks and scheming, and then rise to the top, it seems unreliable.