On this day, 38 years ago, November 3, 1987 (September 12, 1987, the United Nations awarded the Science Prize to Yuan Longping. Yuan Longping, the "Father of Hybrid Rice" On November 3, 1987, UNESCO awarded the 1987 Science Award to China expert Yuan Longping at its Paris headquarters in recognition of his outstanding achievements in cultivating high-yield hybrid rice. Yuan Longping, 57 years old at that time, was a researcher at the Hunan Province Academy of Agricultural Sciences and director of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center. He has been engaged in the cultivation of hybrid rice for a long time. The scientific research team he led has cultivated a series of hybrid rice combinations with strong advantages and promoted them on a large scale in agricultural production, achieving significant economic benefits. The hybrid rice varieties cultivated by Yuan Longping have been tested in the United States, Japan, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and other countries and achieved good results. In his speech at the award ceremony, UNESCO Director-General Mbo pointed out that Yuan Longping's scientific research results are the "second green revolution" after the international cultivation of semi-dwarf rice in the early 1970s.