Is Yuan Longping dead?

Yuan Longping, who is 90 years old, can't "control" his legs and his heart for rice, although his health is not as good as before. "No one is more persistent about hybrid rice than he is." Dr. Xin Ye Yun, researcher of Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and director of academician's office, said.

In order to facilitate the research of old academicians who are not so convenient to move, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences has arranged an experimental field next to Yuan Longping's residence. This field has become his "heart disease" since then. As long as you are in Changsha, you have to watch it several times a day.

"On August 9th (the ninth day of the seventh lunar month), Academician Yuan Longping will be 90 years old. But after he joined the 90s, he didn't feel that he should have a rest. Hybrid rice really immersed in his blood, is his lifeblood, his soul.

Changsha, a furnace city, is sweltering in summer and extremely hot. No matter how hot the weather is, the first thing Yuan Longping does after getting up is not to wash his face, brush his teeth and have breakfast, but to work in the fields. The second "consultation" every day is that everyone just wants to hide in the "flame" of the air-conditioned room at noon. The third and fourth time, around dinner.

"Due to physical reasons, Yuan Longping can't travel all over the country as often as before. But one day he was not allowed to look at this field, and his heart failed. Take this field as an example. In fact, he can see it from his window, but he still insists on going downstairs to the fields every day. " Yang said to him.