袁隆平,我国籼型杂交水稻的主要研究者、培育者,全国劳动模范。他是江西德安人,今年52岁,一直在湖南黔阳地区农业中学教书,现兼任省农科院研究员。六十年代初,袁隆平根据玉米、高粱等作物杂种优势利用的先例,大胆提出利用水稻杂种优势的设想,这是国际上从1917年有人发现水稻雄性不育现象以来一直没有研究成功的课题。袁隆平从大田发现了天然雄性不育株,转育成第一代雄性不育系材 Yuan Longping, Principal Investigator, Breeder, National Model Worker, Indica Hybrid Rice in China. He is a native of De’an, Jiangxi province. He is 52 years old and has been teaching at Agricultural Middle School in Qiangyang, Hunan Province. He is also a researcher of Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In the early 1960s, Yuan Longping boldly put forward the idea of ​​utilizing the heterosis of rice based on the precedent of the utilization of the heterosis of crops such as corn and sorghum. This is an international issue that has not been successfully studied since the discovery of male sterility in rice in 1917. Yuan Longping discovered a natural male sterile line from Daejeon and transformed it into the first generation of male sterile line