byAnonym fromwww.people.com.cn
Translated by Kang Xiaoyun; edited by Chen Fuming
Time:2015-01-10 15:20:31 Click:1406
On January 9, the conference on national scientific and technological award (2014) was held in the Great Hall of the People. The conference granted national scientific and technological award to 318 research projects, eight experts and one foreign organization. Among them, one expert was conferred the toppest scientific and technological award. There were 46 national natural sciences awards, 70 national technological invention awards, and 202 national scientific progress awards. Seven foreign scientists and one foreign organization were granted scientific and technological cooperation awards.
The higher institutions in 2014 were granted Natural Sciences one first prize, and 26 second prize, accounting for 58.7% in all the awards. Furthermore, the higher institutions were conferred 38 national technological invention awards accounting for 70.4% in all the awards. 115 national scientific progress awards were conferred to the higher institutions, which accounted for 74.7%. 14 universities, as the first participant, were granted 20 natioanl scientific and technological awards for national security, accounting for 31.3%. National University of Defense Technology was granted scientific and technological progress award for special contribution. Beijing University of Aeronautics andAstronautics and Harbin Institute of Technology were conferred technological invention awards. Higher Institutions awarded accounted for high proportion, which embodies the significance of higher institutions in fundamental study and fundamental innovative study. The Party Central Committee and the State Council has held national scientific and technological award conference for fourteen consecutive years, which represents the fact that the Party Central Committee and the State Council attaches great importance to the scientific and technological development. University teachers shoulders the task of teaching and the task of scientific research as well. Therefore, university teachers are supposed to take this opportunity to deepen the comprehensive reform in the domain of education cultivating innovative talents and improving national welfare.
