Talk:Yuan Longping

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"A famous economist"
From an article in Chinese, http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5a53af350100b7ea.html~type=v5_one&label=rela_prevarticle, this famous economist's name is Don Paarlberg. Here's another article about him:

"DON PAARLBERG is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. In addition to teaching, he has served in the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford. Dr. Paarlberg is the author of seven books including, Great Myths of Economics (1968) and Toward a Well-Fed World (1988)." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Derekjoe (talk • contribs) 01:19, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Born in Beijing?
He has a strong southern accent though.--Tricia Takanawa (talk) 17:29, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

The word "Epic"
The word "epic" is misused in the heading. Please change it to a more appropriate word. Chrisrus (talk) 14:28, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Addition of content
In the next few weeks, I will add more content about Longping yuan, especially his personal life and obstacles he met during the early stage of hybrid rice experiments. Shikele (talk) 15:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2021
 202.130.124.43 (talk) 03:09, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. RudolfRed (talk) 03:14, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

According to current news and social media, Yuan's death news is fake.
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. And what changes are you suggesting to the article? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:47, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Semi-protection-unlocked.svg Not done: The page's protection level has changed since this request was placed. You should now be able to edit the page yourself. If you still seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details.  BrandNew Jim Zhang   (talk)  05:50, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2021 (2)
change the age 90 to 91. 23.240.251.167 (talk) 16:40, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: He was born on September of 1930. He is not yet 91 years old.  The age in the info box will be updated automatically on is birthday.  RudolfRed (talk) 17:01, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

The Chinese media reports his age as being 91 due to different cultural representations of age. In China, you are 1 when you are born. This Wikipedia article talks about this phenomenon -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning

Birthday conflicts?
I guess the above, failed semi-protected edit requests were happen due to different understanding of, and sources indicate his actual birthday, the de facto 7 Sep 1930 seems from CAE. But currently some recent sources indicated this thing in different ways: says 13 August 1929,  says July 1929 (day unknown), and  says 9 July 1929, any ideas that if there are anyone source that can overturn the one from CAE? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:39, 20 September 2022 (UTC)


 * ^^ Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 11:36, 4 October 2023 (UTC)