Photo taken on May 22, 2018 shows experts examining and verifying a new hybrid rice variety (Chaoyou 1000), developed by Yuan Longping's team, which has set a new yield record of 1,065.3 kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares) of farmland in a test field in Sanya City, South China's Hainan Province. The field was jointly managed by the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center and several companies. Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice", and his team also broke records in a number of hybrid rice test fields with Chaoyou 1000. (Photo: China News Service/Wang Xiaobin)
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