XINHUA-PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2021-CHINA NEWS

(220106) -- BEIJING, Jan. 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Deng Ze, wife of deceased scientist Yuan Longping, attends Yuan's funeral at the Mingyangshan funeral parlor in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, May 24, 2021. The top rice scientist, who developed the first high-yield hybrid rice strain in 1973, died of organ failure at 91 on May 22, 2021 in Changsha. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)