TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of ...

BEIJING, May 25 /PRNewswire/ A news report by China.org.cn on Yuan Longping: On May 22, Yuan Longping, the renowned Chinese scientist who helped lift countless people out of hunger, passed away, ...

This weekend, the Chinese public mourned the passing of Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist whose scientific breakthroughs in rice development helped to usher in the Green Revolution that ended ...

Shellen X. Wu is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her second book will cover Chinese geopolitics and agricultural development. Chinese children recite a Tang ...