Yuan Longping cultivated hybrid rice, mainly to be used in extreme situations, such as food shortages, to fill the hunger. Ordinary people eat very little of it on a daily basis, and we eat Japonica rice on a daily basis, which has a good texture. Hybridized rice is indica rice, which is not as tasty as japonica rice. Before the reform and opening up, there is a long time, the Chinese people do not have enough to eat, starting in 1976, the state wide-scale promotion of Yuan Longping's hybrid rice, by 1988 half of the country's paddy fields have been planted with Yuan Longping's rice, the yield increased, the Chinese people do not have to starve again.

Ordinary people eat rice every day, usually the northeast rice, Thai rice or Japanese imports of Akita Komachi rice, these rice to eat good taste, flavor, hybrid rice can be not good taste. By now Yuan Longping's hybrid rice, in the country's planting area has shrunk no more than 8.542%, out of the main rice varieties.

But food security is China's most important, the consequences of food shortage is starvation of millions of people. The country wants high-yield "super hybrid rice", is to ensure that in extreme cases, but also to ensure that the people have food. Yuan Longping's latest research results, to be pushed to Africa, to solve the food problem of the African people, so that Yuan Longping is also the benefactor of the African people, the African people also thank him.