Professor Yuan Lonhping-my hero

Professor Yuan Longping

More than fifty years ago, the Secretary of the U.S. stated that the Chinese government was not able to establish an abundant food supply since the large population was a tough burden. If e look at today’s China, undoubtedly, his prediction was wrong. He wound not expect that Chinese government not only solved the food deficiency problem, but also be able to export food although China has a larger number of population than it at that time . Except Deng Xiaoping ‘s reform and opening policy, this great change should also attribute to the historic achievements of Professor Yuan Longping , who is to be known as the father of the hybrid rice.
How big is his contribution to China? We can be aware of it by the following statistics data. The production of rice of each mu(a traditional unite of area )in China in 1950 was only 141kg , till to 1998, it has increased to 3.2 times,450kg. In today’s China, 60% of the production of rice was planted by Yuan Longping and his helpers. From 1976 to 1998 China produced 0.35 billion rice than expected, profited 350billon RMB and solve the food problem of morn than 5 million people.
I regard him as my hero because of his strong will and flawless character. In the face of the difficulties, he never gives up. For instance, in order to search for a suitable sample, he tried at least 1000 times! Maybe the God was moved by his persistent efforts, provided the opportunity for him to find out it finally. Instead of applying the patent for the precious sample or keeping it as a secret, he sent the samples to the scientists and organizations which were on the same research at that time. It was a really rare character to share the samples with your rivals. Imagining that if someone else came up with the theory finally with the samples he provided, Professor Yuan’s efforts would be overshadowed. When we recall the history of the development of the science,, without considering, you can blurt out same outstanding scientists who were as hardworking as him or even more intelligent that him, whereas you will feel difficult to choose one who was so selfless that even shared his work with rivals, in contrast, it is quite common to list the arguments for the patent. We will appreciate his decision after considering his purposes. As a scientist who understood the importance of his research clearly and fully, he was not working for the money, personal reputation or status, it was for the people in the urgent need of the abundant food supply. In his mind, no matter who will succeed in the end was less essential to the benefit people would obtain. He was such a noble person that the nation and people weighs the most in the scales in his heart, therefore he did not think it was worthy to consider his profits too much comparing to the benefit of the nation and people. Based on this, I admired him very much and I decided to make efforts to benefit our people, our society and our nation.
I also appreciate his modest attitude of success, unlike many people changed a lot after becoming famous , Professor Yuan kept his simple lifestyle and behavior. In essence, he is more like a common farmer than a well-known scientist since he always lives with farmers and becomes their sincere friend. Although his creative work has helped improve the production to a large extent, he was still not satisfied with his previous achievements. He has the ambition to provide food for more and more people. Although he cannot slow down the pace of growing old, his heart is keeping young. Now he was nearly 80, at the age of enjoying and resting, but he decided to continue to be the pioneer of climbing the higher mountain.
Professor Yuan’s achievement are quite decisive and seminal to the fate and the future of the human-beings, thanks to his outstanding contribution, we do not need to worry for the food. I will obtain the power from him, try my best to be a useful person for the society.
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