A ceremony for China's most presitigious awards in science and technology has been held in Beijing. The receiver of the highest price this year, the State Supreme Science and Technology Award, is Yu Min, a nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Yu's theoretical studies of nuclear energy led to breakthrough of hydrogen bomb. The State Science and Technology Awards comproses of four more awards that reconize individual and organizations for their contribution in specific aspects: State Natural Science Award, State Technological Invention Award, National Science and Techonology Progress Award, and International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award of the PRC, which was handed to University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and seven individual scientists from Russia, Canada, the US. (CNTV.cn)
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