200多封唁电送别袁老丨Bidding farewell to father of hybrid rice

“杂交水稻之父”“共和国勋章”获得者袁隆平院士遗体送别仪式，于2021年5月24日（星期一）上午10:00在湖南省长沙市明阳山殡仪馆铭德厅举行。

China on Monday morning held a memorial service in Changsha, central China's Hunan province, to bid farewell to Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice," who passed away on Saturday.

今天上午，群众自发来到现场。长沙明阳山殡仪馆外，数万民众排起长队前来送别袁隆平院士。

送袁老的路上，有免费的菊花和接送班车。

A flower shop owner in Changsha provided chrysanthemums for free. Some cab drivers transferred people arriving from other places by train to the mortuary at no charge. Some who could not come had flowers delivered to the mortuary.

在湖南杂交水稻研究中心的悼念现场，大厅两面墙上贴满了全国各地200多家单位和个人，向袁隆平院士家属发来的唁电。

Over 200 messages of condolence spread solemnly across the walls of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, as people bid farewell to the nation's "food hero" Yuan Longping, who worked at the center and passed away Saturday at the age of 91. 

▲ People pay tribute to agricultural pioneer Yuan Longping on Sunday at his former workplace, the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, in Changsha, Hunan province. Photo by Yang Huafeng/China News Service

这些发给袁隆平院士治丧工作组、湖南杂交水稻工程技术研究中心或袁院士家属的唁电，有来自科技部等国家部委，县、市地方党委政府，大学科研机构的，还有袁院士生前工作、访问过的单位等。

唁电颂扬袁院士生前功绩，作为“杂交水稻之父”，“把一生浸在到稻田里，把功勋写在大地上”“将中国人的饭碗牢牢端在自己手中”，“在世界农业发展史上树起了一座雄伟不朽的中国丰碑。”

Mourning words recalled Yuan's achievements "as the father of hybrid rice", "his entire life was immersed in the paddy fields, and his feats were spread across the land".

"He kept the right to a bowl of rice firmly in the hands of the Chinese people."
"[He placed China firmly] in the history of the world's agricultural development."

"Academician Yuan Longping committed his life to serving the country through science, technology, and innovation. His sublime character and noble sentiment vividly illustrates the spirit of scientists in the new era. The passing of Yuan Longping is a great loss to the scientific community in China and the world at large."

四川富顺县委唁电：“侠之大者为国为民，在生命最后的时刻，仍然躬耕研究。犹记得去年10月我们到长沙拜望袁隆平院士，他亲笔题下‘富顺，再生稻之乡’。”

"The greatest hero serves the country. Even in the last moments of life, he devoted it to research. Still remember last October when we visited Yuan Longping in Changsha. He wrote 'Fushun, the home of ratooning rice', in calligraphy."

内蒙古自治区兴安盟袁隆平院士工作站的唁电称，袁隆平先生“88岁高龄还在兴安盟成立院士工作站，亲自领衔北方寒地粳稻和耐盐碱水稻的研发推广，探索建立兴安盟水稻亩增产100公斤的技术模式，为165万草原各族人民群众带来福祉和吉祥。”

"Even at the advanced age of 88, Yuan still managed to set up an academician workstation in Inner Mongolia's Xing'an League. He personally led the research and development of japonica rice and saline-alkaline resistant rice in the cold regions of northern China. He explored the technical mode of increasing the yield of rice by 100 kg/mu in the Xing'an League, and brought benefits to 1.65 million people of all ethnic groups in the grasslands."

延安大学唁电称，“2019年，以年届90之身担任西安市乡村发展公益慈善基金会创始人大会荣誉主席，与众多知名人士一起发起成立延安大学乡村发展研究院，助力乡村全面振兴。”

"In 2019, at the age of 90, he served as the honorary chairman of the Founders' Conference of Xi'an Rural Development Charity Foundation. Together with many other public figures, he established the Rural Development Institute of Yan'an University to promote the overall revitalization of rural areas."

来自菲律宾菲华商联总会的慰问函表示，“在东南亚、南亚、非洲，杂交水稻正在生根发芽，结出沉甸甸的稻穗。在菲律宾、印尼、越南、缅甸、老挝、柬埔寨、巴基斯坦、孟加拉、尼日利亚等地，杂交水稻已经推广种植和引进试种到数十个国家和地区，海外种植面积达700万公顷。”

"In Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa, hybrid rice is taking root and bearing heavy spikes of rice. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and other places, hybrid rice has been popularized and introduced to dozens of countries and regions, with an overseas planting area of 7 million hectares."

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