June 6, 1981 (yau fifth day of May), Yuan Longping won our first Principal Invention Award.


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1981, China's rice breeding expert Yuan Longping won China's first Principal Invention Award In Yuan Longping in 1953 graduated from the Southwest College of Agriculture Department of Agronomy, successive Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences researcher, Southwest Agricultural College professor and director of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, was also elected to the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Standing Committee.
Professor Yuan from the 1960s on painstaking research in hybrid rice breeding has bred Southern gifted the 2nd excellent new hybrid rice varieties, by the large scale, an increase of about 20% the history of China's rice breeding another major breakthrough following the dwarfing breeding from 1976 to 1987, 10 years, [TodayinHistory.cn] between the national total planted by the Yuan Longping breed of hybrid rice area of ​​10.5 million hectares, for increasing production of rice in China made a very large contribution.
To this end, in 1981, Yuan Longping won our first Principal Invention Award. UNESCO Science Prize in 1987, both in and out " Father of Hybrid Rice "in the title.