On May 24, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian presided over a regular press conference.

Over the past few days, the official microblog of the United Nations, the director general of FAO and the president of the World Food Prize Foundation have published articles in memory of Academician Yuan Longping. Overseas media and netizens have also expressed their thoughts in various ways, thanking him for his outstanding contributions to promoting food security, eliminating poverty and benefiting the people. What is China's comment on this?

Zhao Lijian said that after the death of Yuan Longping, a famous Chinese scientist, winner of the medal of the people's Republic of China and academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, people from all walks of life at home and abroad expressed deep mourning, which fully shows that his contribution to the cause of hybrid rice in China and even the world has been widely recognized and highly valued. His death is a great loss to China and the world, and he will always be remembered and remembered by people.

Zhao Lijian said that at present, the annual planting area of hybrid rice in China has reached 240 million mu, and the annual increase in grain production alone can support 80 million people. China uses less than 9% of the world's arable land, feeds nearly one fifth of the world's population, and holds its rice bowl firmly in its own hands, which is inseparable from Academician Yuan Longping's hard work. At the same time of increasing grain production and income, we have always held an open and responsible attitude and generously shared hybrid rice technology with countries all over the world.

Zhao Lijian introduced that the export of China's hybrid rice technology is almost synchronized with the opening up. In 1979, China provided hybrid rice seeds to foreign countries for the first time. 40 years later, China's hybrid rice has been planted in dozens of countries and regions in Asia, Africa and America, with an annual planting area of 8 million hectares. Over the past 40 years, Academician Yuan Longping and his researchers have also been to India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, the United States and other countries to provide advice and advice for rice researchers, and have trained more than 14000 hybrid rice professionals for more than 80 developing countries through international training courses. These efforts have made great contributions to solving the problem of world hunger and poverty.

"The golden and heavy rice makes countless people enjoy the happiness of food and the hope of life." Zhao Lijian said that Academician Yuan Longping belongs not only to China, but also to the world. His lifelong dream is to make hybrid rice cover the world, so that all people will not go hungry. China has created a miracle of food self-sufficiency and is willing and able to continue to make greater contributions to the governance of global food security. We believe that with the joint efforts of all parties, Academician Yuan Longping's dream will come true, and hunger and poverty will eventually disappear from the earth.