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Re: China and United States Relations
« Reply #60 on: October 30, 2022, 08:26:49 am »


Just found out from this Hong Kong video that Madagasca, one of the many African countries helped by China to develop farming techniques to improve their productivity of the rice grain, has got on its bank note the picture of the hybrid rice stalk originally developed by Yuan Longping (Chinese: 袁隆平; September 7, 1930 – May 22, 2021), a Chinese agronomist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice".
China actually sent specialist teams to stay for years in those African countries they helped, and when asked to comment on the aid projects, Zhou Enlai, the late Chinese Premier was reported to have said: "We're the poor helping the poor!"