Magsaysay Awardees Digital Collection

Yuan Longping

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2001 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service from China. As a young plant scientist, Yuan Longping recoiled from the horror of China's great famine of the late 1950s and vowed to do something about it. Years of painstaking experimentation led, in 1974, to the world's first successful system for producing high-yielding hybrid rice on a large scale. Today, half of China's riceland is planted to Yuan's hybrids and his technology — continuously improved at his China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center — is spreading through Asia. This offers hope that in years ahead an ancient dream of Asia may well come true: There will be rice for everyone.

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Official biography of Yuan Longping written by Lorna Kalaw-Tirol for the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in 2001.

Official brochure of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center (CNHRRDC) and Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center (HHRRC). For more information, visit http://www.hhrrc.com.

Citation of Yuan Longping as Magsaysay Awardee for Government Service

In electing Yuan Longping to receive the 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service, the board of trustees recognizes the unique contribution of his research in rice hybridization to food security in Asia.

A pictorial book entitled "A Monument to China" was published in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of hybrid rice research in China and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center.

Yuan Longping's acceptance speech at the 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies held in Manila on 31 August 2001.

Dr. Yuan Longping received various honors even before and after he was conferred with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2001. Photos show some of his awards including the World Food Prize in 2004, WIPO Gold Medal for the…

Yuan Longping as Father of Hybrid Rice
Yuan Longping, in his citation for his Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2001, says that he "has enriched the lives of millions of Chinese villagers, who revere him and call him the Father of Hybrid Rice." Photos show Professor Yuan Longping…

Training on Hybrid Rice Technology
Photos show some of the local and international trainings conducted by Dr. Yuan Longping on Hybrid Rice Technology.

Photos show Dr. Yuan Longping visited the Philippines in several occasions checking the rice in the Philippines as well as promoting his so-called 'super hybrid rice.'

The 'Super Hybrid Rice' of Dr. Yuan Longping
An article highlighting China as the first to develop new high yield 'super rice' from chinaonline.com. Followed by photos of the 'super hybrid rice' developed by Dr. Yuan Longping and his team of researchers.