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by temp8964 1859 days ago
What? "Yuan Longping's breakthrough happened in the 70s. The great famine happened in early 60s." This is your own words!
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Are you aware that there has been more than one famine in history?
I'm totally lost. Are you implying he's responsible for the great famine somehow?

"Fighting famine" is a generic term. His contributions prevented future famine. That does count as "fighting famine", doesn't it?