China's science award looks to emulate Nobel PrizeBy Ma Chi | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-09-10 10:08Shi Yigong, the Future Science Prize laureate in life science. [Photo/VCG]The awarding ceremony of the second edition of the Future Science Prize, hailed as the "Nobel Prize of China", was held in Beijing on Saturday.The Life Science Prize was awarded to Shi Yigong for his research on the structure of spliceosome, a substance which is crucial in gene expression.The Physical Science Pri

On October 28, 2017 Future Science Prize and Future Forum Annual Conference held in Beijing.Fourteen excellent young representatives selected by the Future Forum, Beijing No.4 High School, Beijing Academy, 17zuoye and iFLYTEK were invited to the 2017 Future Science Prize and Future Forum Annual Conference, where they talked face-to-face with Yigong Shi, Jianwei Pan and Chenyang Xu, three winners of 2017 Future Science Prize.Professor Yigong Shi, winner of the Life Sciences Prize, never thinks a

A workshop on mathamatics is held during the Future Forum Annual Conference in Beijing on Oct 28. [Photo provided by Future Forum]The Future Forum Annual Conference kicked off in Beijing on Saturday, with prominent scientists, scholars and business representatives from home and abroad participating.The two-day event was a scientific and technological feast for the participants. It featured a series of workshops on a wide range of themes, including mathematics, quantum physics and celestial

The award ceremony of 2017 Future Science Prize was held in Beijing from October 28th to 29th. PAN Jianwei, the vice president of USTC and the chief scientist of Satellite Micius——the world’s first quantum communications satellite project——won the 2017 Physical Science Prize.CHEN Jining, the Deputy Secretary of Beijing Municipal Party committee of the CPC, chaired a forum on national development of science and technology. President BAO Xinhe and Vice President ZHU&n

Yuan Longping, known as the "world father of hybrid rice," has jointly won the life science section of the Future Science Prize with two other scientists."There is no limit to scientific research, and I still have a dream – which is hybrid rice going global and covering the whole world," Yuan said in a video address at the 2018 award ceremony in Beijing on Sunday."I hope hybrid rice can benefit people around the world and play a big role in enhancing world food security."The 88-year-old agr