China News Service, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Zhang Weiran and Zhang Su) The 2020 National Science and Technology Awards Conference will be held in Beijing on November 3.
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Master of New China Aircraft Design, Founder of Aircraft Aerodynamics Design Gu Songfen, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Internationally Famous Nuclear Energy Scientist Wang Dazhong, jointly won the 2020 National Highest Science and Technology Award.
The picture is courtesy of Gu Songfen, Aviation Industry Corporation of China
Born in February 1930, Gu Songfen is a researcher of China Aviation Industry Corporation, a master of aircraft design in New China, founder of aircraft aerodynamic design, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Gu Songfen is committed to promoting the development of China's aviation science and technology, innovatively designing the aerodynamic layout of multi-type aircraft, and establishing a new Chinese aircraft aerodynamic design system.
He presided over the development of the J-8 and J-8 II supersonic fighters, creating a precedent for China's independent development of fighters. The J-8 series of aircraft were the core main battle equipment of the Chinese military in the 20th century.
He established the Chinese fighter aircraft development system and made great contributions to the cross-generational upgrade and development of aviation weapons and equipment.
He pays great attention to national strategic security and provides decision support for large planes flying into the blue sky.
He also trained a large number of leading aircraft design talents for the country and made outstanding contributions to the 70-year development of the new China's aviation industry.
The picture is courtesy of Wang Dazhong, Tsinghua University
Born in February 1935, Wang Dazhong is a professor and former president of Tsinghua University, an internationally renowned nuclear energy scientist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wang Dazhong has worked in the field of advanced nuclear energy technology research and development for decades, presided over the research, design, and construction of the world’s first 5MW shell-type integrated low-temperature nuclear heating reactor and the world’s first 10MW modular high-temperature gas with inherent safety features. Cold experimental reactor, and vigorously promote the application of the above two advanced reactor technologies.
He led the nuclear energy research team of Tsinghua University to improve the safety of nuclear energy as the main academic philosophy, and successfully embarked on a development path of advanced nuclear energy technology with inherent safety as the main feature.
During his tenure as president of Tsinghua University, he actively explored the path of building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics and made important contributions to the reform and development of China's higher education.
It is reported that the 2020 National Science and Technology Awards selected a total of 264 projects, 10 scientific and technological experts and 1 international organization.
In addition to Gu Songfen and Wang Dazhong who won the highest national science and technology award, 46 national natural science awards were selected, including 2 first prizes and 44 second prizes; 61 national technological invention awards, including 3 first prizes. There are 58 second prizes; 157 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, including 2 special prizes, 18 first prizes, and 137 second prizes.
The reporter was informed that continuing to encourage basic research is a major feature of the 2020 National Science and Technology Awards.
The National Natural Science Award has selected a number of original results, some focusing on basic research, such as mathematics has made important breakthroughs in the frontier research field of modern number theory, and "research on mesomechanics of composite materials with interface effects" is at the international leading level; Aiming at the application of basic research or important scientific issues in the field of people’s livelihood, such as the "Immune Genetic Mechanism of Leprosy Hazard" research results have accelerated the process of eliminating leprosy hazards in China.
This selection also emphasizes the accumulation of application achievements.
The achievement of a research result is often the dedication and diligence of scientific researchers for "ten years as a day".
The picture shows in 2019, Academician Zhong Nanshan and the director of the National Respiratory Medicine Center Professor He Jianxing and others discussed the development direction of the team at the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health. Photo courtesy of the Zhong Nanshan Respiratory Disease Prevention and Control Innovation Team
Zhong Nanshan's respiratory disease prevention and control innovation team won the National Science and Technology Progress Award. Since its establishment in 1979, the team has been guided by a scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts, being bold in medical treatment, and taking life first, with community prevention and control, early diagnosis and early treatment, and precision. Treatment is the starting point, focusing closely on the key scientific issues of "epidemiological characteristics of the occurrence and development of respiratory diseases, molecular mechanisms, and early diagnosis and early intervention" in order to achieve the "top of the sky"-an area that is urgently needed in the country for disease prevention and control. Keeping a close eye on the international frontier concepts and technologies, the "site"-to develop disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment methods and drugs suitable for national conditions, "for the people"-to improve the health of the people as the goal, and create an internationally advanced prevention of respiratory infectious diseases. To promote the establishment of an emergency management mechanism for public health emergencies in China, and establish an internationally advanced “prevention-monitoring-treatment-control” chain cycle management system for major respiratory infectious diseases.
At the same time, it takes root at the grassroots level and bases itself on the community to carry out intervention measures for healthy people and early-stage patients, to move the barriers of prevention and control of respiratory diseases forward, and to reduce the medical expenses of patients.
In order to promote the concept of health, a series of "One Hundred Thousand Whys of National Health" was compiled, which has made a strong push for the popularization of health science in China.
In 2020, the pace of opening up and cooperation for the National Science and Technology Awards will be more solid.
Natural science awards, technological invention awards, and scientific and technological progress awards are all open to foreign experts. In the end, there are 5 award-winning projects hosted or completed by foreign experts, and 2 of them have participated in research for more than 10 years.
The International Science and Technology Cooperation Award received 54 candidates from 22 countries and 1 international organization, setting a new record.
In the end, eight foreign experts from France, the Netherlands, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany and other countries, and an international organization (International Tropical Agriculture Center) won the award.
Among them, there are not only experts who promote academic research and talent training of both sides, but also scholars who have contributed to promoting international scientific and technological cooperation between governments. The cooperation fields involve radio astronomy, controllable nuclear fusion energy, hematology, tropical agriculture and other disciplines. field.
Chinese and foreign scientists have united and cooperated to effectively help China's independent innovation capabilities continue to improve.
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