
Yuan Longping was a great Chinese scientist. When he was a little boy, many people in China didn’t have enough rice to eat. He had a big dream: “I want to grow rice plants as tall as trees, so that everyone can have enough food!” To make his dream come true, Yuan studied and worked very hard. Finally, he made a new kind of rice — hybrid (杂交的) rice! Because of him, hundreds of millions of people are no longer hungry.