湖南省科协、湖南杂交水稻研究中心和国际水稻研究所联合举办的第一届杂交水稻国际学术讨论会于1986年10月6～10日在长沙召开。来自美国、日本、印度、菲律宾、澳大利亚、加纳、英国、比利时、巴西、埃及、马来西亚、墨西哥等五大洲二十个国家及国际水稻研究所的外国专家、学者107人,我国24个省、市、自治区的杂交水稻各个领域的专家、学者161人参加了会议。国际组织委员会由湖 The First International Symposium on Hybrid Rice was jointly held by Hunan Association for Science and Technology, Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and International Rice Research Institute in Changsha from October 6 to October 10, 1986. Twenty-seven foreign experts and scholars from 20 countries on five continents, including the United States, Japan, India, the Philippines, Australia, Ghana, Britain, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia and Mexico and the International Rice Research Institute, 161 experts and scholars from various fields of hybrid rice in the autonomous region attended the conference. International Organization Committee by Lake