In China, with the support of the national high technology research program, a series of important achievements have been made on hybrid rice with strong heterosis, the world record of rice yield in large area is created continuously, and the utilization of rice heterosis is in the international forefront. This paper summarizes the breeding and the application of hybrid rice with strong heterosis since the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan in China, including the theory and the technology of strong heterosis hybrid rice breeding, the discovery and the utilization of important functional genes, the breeding of parents and hybrid rice with strong heterosis, the commercial technology, the research and demonstration, and the application of hybrid rice with strong heterosis, and the research emphasis in next five years.

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