Every scientist has a childhood dream. Two scientists in China once had the same nice dream. That is to grow a new type of rice which could produce a lot to feed all the Chinese. They are Song Yingxing who was born in 1587 Ming Dynasty and Yuan Longping who was born in 1930. Song Yingxing is the author of Tiangong Kaiwu, an encyclopedia（百科全书）of Chinese technology in the seventeenth century. When he was young, he dreamed to grow a new type of rice to make Chinese have enough food to eat. Until 1973, another Chinese scientist Yuan Longping made their dream come true.
Yuan Longping graduated from the Southwest Agricultural（农业）University in 1953. He came up with an idea for a hybrid rice in the 1960s. Since then, he has devoted himself to the research and development of new varieties（品种）. In 1973 Yuan Longping, together with other people, succeeded in the development of hybrid rice. This made China a worldwide leader in rice production. For this, he was called Father of Hybrid Rice. In 1980, the technology for hybrid rice was introduced to the United States. Because of Professor Yuan's hard work, China now produces enough rice to feed her people every year. From this story, we know that scientific spirit and innovative（创新）thinking are always inscribed in the Chinese bones.
