Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, globally known for developing the first hybrid rice strain in 1973 that rid countless people     1    hunger, passed away in 2021 at the age of 91.

The scientist spent over five decades researching and improving hybrid rice,     2    has reached its third generation, feeding     3    (near) one-fifth of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of the world’s total land. In China, the annual planting area of hybrid rice has topped 16 million hectares, or 57 percent of     4    total planting area of rice. Its growth area overseas has reached 8 million hectares. His more recent achievements included developing     5    (vary) seawater rice, or saline-alkali(盐碱) tolerant rice. His team planned to use the rice     6    (transform) 6.7 million hectares of saline-alkali land in China over the next eight to 10 years.

Yuan once said he had two dreams - to “enjoy the cool under the rice crops     7    (tall) than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global     8    (short) of food.

Yuan’s lifelong devotion to     9    (reduce) hunger has made him a national hero and household name in China. In 1999, an asteroid(小行星) discovered by the National Astronomical Observatories     10    (name) after Yuan. In 2019, he was awarded the Medal of the Republic, China’s highest state honor.