People around the globe have been mourning the death of Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, lifelong research in hybrid rice helps feed more people around the world.
Born in Beijing in 1930, Yuan devoted his entire life the study of hybrid rice. With his tireless efforts, he finally (overcome) numerous difficulties and cultivated the world's first hybrid rice strain in 1973, which was planted first in Hunan province in the following year. It was the first time that a hybrid rice (use) for farming.
Having spent over five decades in hybrid rice research, Yuan has helped China work a great wonder— (feed) nearly one-fifth of the world's population with (little) than 9 percent of the world's total land. Moreover, Yuan's team has also offered training (course) in dozens of countries to help them address the problem of food (short). However, impressed the world most was that despite such great contributions he made, he still considered himself farmer and cared little about money or fame. Yuan is surely a great figure to be remembered.
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