The video on the Sky Screen continued:
"A single grain of food can save a nation, but it can also bring the next one to its knees!
You youngsters may not know this, but the famine of the 1960s was a matter of life and death!
The time when people went without food must never return—it cannot, and it never will!
Coming up next is the father of Huaxia hybrid rice—Yuan Longping!
He is hailed as the 'Modern Shennong.' The hybrid rice he developed has fed Huaxia’s 1.4 billion people!
He dedicated his life to artificial hybrid rice; over 20 percent of the world’s rice is now grown from the varieties Yuan Longping cultivated. He allowed the people of Huaxia to hold their rice bowls firmly in their own hands.
By 2020, the yield reached a staggering 1,500 kilograms per mu—that is 3,000 jin per mu!"
The Sky Screen was flooded with comments:
"A bowl of porridge or a grain of rice—remember it was not easily won; half a thread or half a strand—always recall the hardships of labor! We will remember you forever!"
"You used nine percent of the world’s arable land to feed one-fifth of the world’s population. In our hearts, you are our savior, our great benefactor!"
"I met him once—in my textbooks, at the dinner table, in the lives of ordinary people!"
"The people’s beloved grandfather, rest in peace, we will always miss you!"
"A grain of rice holds the sun and moon; half a field determines the fate of the nation!"
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Chapter 27