入选理由:袁隆平发明的杂交水稻不仅吃饱了全中国,而且每年光增产的粮食就可以多养活7000万人,这个数字相当于世界上每年出生人口的总量。2007年,国家杂交水稻工程技术研究中心与世界上最强大的种业企业——美国先锋公司签署全面科技合作协议。中美两家世界一流的技术与产业“大鳄”展开合作,老袁的目标是,在中国以外的亚洲和非洲地区,推广杂交水稻种植,以“温饱全人类”。 Selected reasons: Yuan Longping invented the hybrid rice is not only full of China, and the annual increase of grain production can feed more than 70000000 people, this figure is equivalent to the world’s annual total population of births. In 2007, the National Hybrid Rice Engineering and Technology Research Center signed a comprehensive agreement on science and technology cooperation with Pioneer Corporation, the most powerful seed enterprise in the world. China and the United States, two world-class technology and industry “predators ” to cooperate, Laoyuan’s goal is to promote hybrid rice cultivation in Asia and Africa outside of China, in order to “eat and drink all mankind.”