Premier stresses need for innovation
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CHINA gave awards to outstanding domestic and foreign scientists yesterday, amid a government campaign encouraging innovation and more sophisticated industry.
The awards were presented by state leaders including President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang at the annual ceremony.
Li said innovation should be placed at the core of national development to maintain economic growth and vowed to nurture new drivers of growth while upgrading traditional industries.
He said China will establish more labs, “innovation centers” and other infrastructure for scientific research, nurture internationally competitive sci-tech enterprises and encourage mass entrepreneurship.
He highlighted the need to reduce overcapacity and connect traditional industries with the Internet.
Asking governments to cut red tape, the premier talked up crowd sourcing and crowd funding as means to finance innovative projects.
The 2015 science awards were granted for 295 research achievements, including 42 “natural science” prizes, 66 “technological invention” prizes, and 187 “sci-tech progress” prizes.
However, the top award of 5 million yuan (US$762,000), for groundbreaking work seen as bringing about huge economic or social benefit, was left vacant this year.
None of the three nominees achieved the 50 percent share of the votes necessary from the voting committee for the prize to be awarded, according to the National Office for Science and Technology Awards.
It was the second time since 2004 the top prize had not been awarded.
Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize, was not among the nominees as no individual or organization had nominated her, an official said.
Pan Jianwei and his team from the University of Science and Technology in Hefei won the natural sciences award for research on quantum teleportation technology.
Of sci-tech progress winners, top honors went to oil refiner Sinopec for environmentally-friendly production of arene, a chemical used in medicines and pesticides, and the Shanghai-Beijing high-speed railway.
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