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Scientists awarded
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TWO Chinese scientists received the State's top award for their contributions to science and technology — a certificate and 5 million yuan (US$602,400) each — from President Jiang Zemin in the Great Hall of the People on Monday.
Wu Wenjun, a respected 82-year-old mathematician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yuan Longping, a 71-year-old leading hybrid-rice expert with the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, each won the State Supreme Science and Technology Award for the year 2000.
Premier Zhu Rongji said at the ceremony that with the dawn of the new century, China plans to speed up economic restructuring and development by using advanced technology to upgrade traditional industries.
The award, set up in May 1999, honours no more than two scientists each year.
At Monday's ceremony, about 2,600 other scientists were also honoured with other awards set up in the mid-1980s.
Two foreign scientists, Wolfgang K H Panofsky from the United States and Gurdev Sigh Khush from India, were also recognized for their work at the ceremony, winning the China International Scientific and Technological Co-operation Award.(SD-Xinhua)
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