At 13:07 on May 22, Yuan Longping, winner of the "Order of the Republic", academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering and Technology Research Center, died in Changsha at the age of 91 due to multi-organ failure.
"People are like seeds, to be a good seed", this is a sentence that Academician Yuan Longping often said before his death. He also spent his life writing footnotes for this sentence. He is the pioneer of china's research and development of hybrid rice, and the first scientist in the world to successfully use the advantages of rice hybrids, known as the "father of hybrid rice". Breaking through the shackles of traditional academic views, he began to study hybrid rice in 1964 and successfully bred the world's first practical and high-yield hybrid rice variety. Since 1976, the results of hybrid rice have been widely promoted and applied throughout the country, which has greatly increased the yield and total yield of rice.
On May 22, Wu Mengchao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and known as the "father of hepatobiliary surgery in China", died at the age of 99.
A temporary memorial hall was erected outside Building 3 of the Oriental Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital. At about 9:00 a.m. on the morning of the 23rd, the surging news reporter saw a long line of people outside the spiritual hall, people holding flowers, making a final farewell to Elder Wu, bowing to the posthumous photo, saluting, and comforting Wu Mengchao's family.
Outside the hospital, the public came to mourn one after another, and some people did not know the specific location, so they inquired at the door, saying that they wanted to say goodbye to Elder Wu.
The long line was silent, some people had tears in their eyes, and many of Wu Lao's students had red eyes.
Grandpa went all the way [crying]