Highest Science and Technology Award
The Highest Science and Technology Award also known as the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, State Supreme Science and Technology Award, or China's Nobel Prize is the highest scientific award issued by the President of the PRC to scientists working in China. The award, given annually each January since 2000, is one of the five State Science and Technology Prizes established by the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
The award comes with a prize of 8 million RMB, with 10% of this awarded, as a bonus to the scientist and the remainder awarded to support the scientist's research.
Award winners
;2000;2001
;2002
;2003
- Liu Dongsheng - geologist
- Wang Yongzhi - aerospace scientist
Not awarded
;2005
;2006
;2007
;2008
- Wang Zhongcheng - neurologist
- Xu Guangxian - chemist
- Gu Chaohao - mathematician
- Sun Jiadong - satellite engineer
;2011
- Xie Jialin - physicist
- Wu Liangyong - architect
- Zheng Zhemin - physicist
- Wang Xiaomo - radar engineer
;2014
- Yu Min - nuclear physicist
Not awarded
;2016
- Zhao Zhongxian - physicist
- Tu Youyou - pharmaceutical chemist
- Wang Zeshan - explosives specialist
- Hou Yunde - virologist
- Liu Yongtan - radar technology and signal processing expert
- Qian Qihu - military protection engineering expert
- Huang Xuhua - nuclear submarine engineer
- Zeng Qingcun - meteorologist
- Gu Songfen - aerodynamicist
- Wang Dazhong - nuclear reactor engineer
- Li Deren - expert in photogrammetry and remote sensing
- Xue Qikun - condensed matter physicist