Lu Yonggen: The sincerity of a scientist

Lu Yonggen has been committed to the research of rice genetic breeding and higher agricultural education. He always keeps in mind the original intention and mission of Communist Party members. He uses actual actions after another to make an example, which has affected a group of students. On August 12, 2019, Lu Yonggen died of illness in Guangzhou. On November 15, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China awarded the honorary title of "Modeling of the Times" of Lu Yonggen.

(Lu Yonggen is the former principal of South China Agricultural University, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a famous rice geneticist. On August 12, 2019, Lu Yonggen died of illness in Guangzhou.)

In March 2017, Lu Yonggen came to the bank with the help of his wife Xu Xuebin and donated a total of more than 8 million yuan to South China Agricultural University (referred to as South China Agricultural University) and established the "Lu Yonggen Xu Xuebin Education Fund" to support agricultural education. This is the largest solo donation in 108 years in South China Agricultural University. "The party cultivated me. I want to return my personal property to the country and make the final contribution." Lu Yonggen said.

Behind the generous donation is Lu Yonggen's simplicity of his life. There is almost no valuable electrical appliance in his house. He is still using old radios and table lamps. Several chairs are even tied with iron wires.

Stick up the feelings of my life

Lu Yonggen was born in Huaxian, Guangdong. He was born in Hong Kong's middle -class family in 1930. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, he spent his youth during the departure. Witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese army, and realized that the misery of the slavery of the country, Lu Yonggen's national consciousness began to wake up. In December 1947, Lu Yonggen joined the "New Democratic Youth Comrades" of the CCP underground party and actively carried out underground activities. On August 9, 1949, 19 -year -old Lu Yonggen joined the Communist Party of China in Hong Kong.

Before the liberation of Guangzhou, when many giants ran south to Hong Kong, Lu Yonggen resolutely chose "retrograde" to return to Guangzhou, which was abolished.

"Raise your right hand, swore to the north, Yan'an, and fight for the cause of communism for a lifetime. The Chinese are keeping the promise and the oath to the party and the people. The motherland is closely linked and always practiced this promise.

The deep love for the motherland runs through Lu Yonggen's life. He visited abroad three times. In the face of exotic material living conditions, he chose to return to China. Even in front of family affection, Lu Yonggen's inner balance tended to the motherland. He once went to the United States to take care of his sick mother for a month, and his elder brother tried to persuade him to stay, and he eventually did not shake.

Lu Yonggen not only firmly believes that only the motherland is a place where he lives, but also infected and driven the people around him. Peng Xinxiang, then executive deputy dean of the South China Agricultural University Graduate School, received a letter from Lu Yonggen when he was studied at the Philippine Institute of Rice Institute in 1992. He hoped that he would return to his country and dedicate the motherland.

Lu Yonggen and his line of pens of Juanxiu were like a lot of heavily, which moved Peng Xinxiang. In the end, he chose to return to China and work hard with Lu Yonggen in rice breeding and other aspects.

(Lu Yonggen (third from right) leads the team to observe rice growth in the field.)

"Bole" who loves talents

Since 1983, Lu Yonggen has been the president of South China Agricultural University for 13 years. He carried out a large -scale reform and promoted the leapfrog development of South China Agricultural University.

For every teacher who is about to go abroad, Lu Yonggen will talk to them with their knees and encourage them to return to China as soon as possible. "It is the most fundamental to learn to report to the country and return to the country."

"Academician Lu seeks the truth of science, the study style is rigorous, his life is simple, and he is indifferent to fame and fortune. In his later years, he will donate a school to donate schools to feed the society. This dedication spirit is a great inspiration to us." After he went to study in Japan that year, Lu Yonggen wrote three times in a row to mobilize him to return to China. In the end, Liu Yaoguang returned to South China ’s Agricultural University of China.

Lu Yonggen also worked hard to create a good environment for talents for talents. In 1987, South China Agricultural University faced the dilemma of talent faults. In order to expand the vast world to the young people with a promising person, at the end of 1986, Lu Yonggen made a special trip to Beijing to ask He Kang, the former Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries and the secretary of the party group. After approval, South China Agricultural University took the lead in opening a new pattern of talent training nationwide.

At that time, many 40 or 50 -year -old teachers were not easily promoted, and it was more difficult to promote young people. Lu Yonggen carefully read everyone's files, inspecting the quality of each person through conversation, reporting the job at the school associate professor of more than 100 people, and the academic committees of the departments and schools were not named, and they were sent to the school for expert review.

In the end, three people including Luo Shiming were promoted to associate professors, and 5 people including Luo Xiwen were promoted to associate professors from the instructor or teaching assistant. The youngest Wen Simei was only 29 years old. Today, eight young scholars who have been promoted in the past that year have become the best in their respective fields, known as the "Eight Kingdoms of Hua Nong", including Luo Fuhe, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Luo Xiwen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the fight against SARS and bird flu. The scientific research hero Xin Chao'an, Luo Shiming, the principal of South China Nongdayuan. Under the perspective of Lu Yonggen's spirit, South China Agricultural University's talents have continued to this day.

"Academician of cloth" who adheres to the principle

Lu Yonggen devoted himself to the research of rice in the rice. In 1952, as the first student of South China Agricultural College (formerly South China Agricultural University), Lu Yonggen met Ding Ying, a well -known agricultural scientist and educator in China here. Ding Ying is more than 40 years old than Lu Yonggen. He is Lu Yonggen's teacher and academic leader, and he is also his "forgotten year." In 1962, Lu Yonggen was transferred to Ding Ying's scientific assistant to become Professor Ding's "left arm and right arm". In October 1964, Professor Ding Ying died of illness. Lu Yonggen took the lead in completing the remaining scientific research projects. He has gradually expanded to more than 10,000 rice germ resources for more than 10,000 rice germ resources, which has become one of the important treasure troves of China's rice germplasm resources.

Wild rice is mostly distributed on the top of the mountains, Shuizawa and other people. The traffic is inconvenient. In many places, it can only be treated. It can be imagined. Lu Yonggen still insisted on participating in the field inspection after seventy years. "Some sections that are really difficult to climb, we can only help Teacher Lu pass slowly. Until 2016, the teacher has never left the scientific research line."

Liu Xiangdong, a student of Lu Yonggen and a professor at South China Agricultural University of Agriculture.

In the early 1980s, Lu Yonggen led the team to study the infertility of rice, and together with assistant Zhang Guiquan proposed the concept of "special affinity of the rice" in rice, as well as the application of "special affinity genes" to overcome the subcontain of the pupa -japonica (Chinese cultivation The infertility of rice species is divided into two major subspecies of tadpoles and japonica), which is considered by the industry to be a new understanding of the current infertility and affinity of cultivation of rice, and has guiding significance for rice breeding practice.

(In 2006, Lu Yonggen took a group photo with local primary school students in Zhanjiang Lake Guangyan when he participated in an academician in Guangdong Province.)

As an expert and scholar, Lu Yonggen does not try to gain a name. Since 2004, he was unwilling to be a "well -known blogger" and he took the initiative to stop recruiting students and changed to assist his students with graduate students. Lu Yonggen is a member of the Degree Committee of the State Council and the convener of the subject review team. When some universities and scientific research units heard him as judges, they were everywhere. Zhuang Chuxiong, the director of the South China Agricultural University Development Planning Division and the disciple of Lu Yonggen, said affection. "It is useless to find Mr. Lu, and the crooked door will only be counterproductive." Zhuang Chuxiong told the visitors that Lu Yonggen only looked at strength.

Source: People's Pictorial

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