Yuan Longping (September 7, 1930-May 22, 2021), male, Han nationality, born in Beiping (now Beijing), a person without party affiliation, was born in De'an County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. He is a well-known agricultural scientist at home and abroad, the pioneer and leader of China's hybrid rice industry, a close friend of the Communist Party of China, an outstanding representative of people without party affiliation, a winner of the "Medal of the Republic", a former vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a former director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and is known as the "father of hybrid rice".
In June 2021, Academician Yuan Longping passed away for nearly a monthYuan Dingyang, Yuan Longping's son and deputy director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center, has inherited the mantle and went north to Inner Mongolia to continue the "Yuan Meng Project".
Yuan Dingyang, male, born on March 14, 1970, Ph.D., is a researcher at Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and Hunan Agricultural University, and the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice (Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and Wuhan University).
First learning experience: 1990 In 1994, Yuan Dingyang received a bachelor's degree in agronomy from Guangxi Agricultural University (now Guangxi University);
The second learning experience: 1996 In 1998, Yuan Dingyang studied crop genetics and breeding at Hunan Agricultural University and obtained a master's degree.
The third learning experience: 2001 In 2004, Yuan Dingyang studied molecular biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained a doctorate.
2005 In 2007, Yuan Dingyang worked as a postdoctoral fellow in biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
1994 In 1999, Yuan Dingyang served as an assistant researcher at the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center.
1999 In 2000, Yuan Dingyang was appointed as a biology research assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
From 2008 to 2015, Yuan Dingyang successively served as an associate researcher and researcher of Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center.
He is currently a researcher at the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice (Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and Wuhan University).
As of September 2016, Yuan Dingyang has successfully bred a series of new sterile lines of two-line and three-line hybrid rice and new combinations such as T You 300, T You 353 and T98A, etc., and has achieved good economic and social benefits.
Yuan Dingyang has won the Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award.
1 second and 1 third prize, and 2 first prizes of Science and Technology Progress Award of Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences.