64 achievements in Beijing won the National Science and Technology Award

Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Chen Hang) The 2020 National Science and Technology Awards Conference was held in Beijing on the 3rd, and 64 achievements presided over by beijing units won the National Science and Technology Award, including 3 first prizes and 61 second prizes, accounting for 30.3% of the total number of general project awards, ranking first in the country.

According to statistics, since the establishment of the country's highest science and technology award in 2000, a total of 35 scientists have won this honor, of which 23 are from Beijing.

The "post-80s" stand out

Beijing supports independent exploration in the fields of mathematics, physics, and life sciences, and continues to make important progress in basic research. In 2020, 15 achievements in Beijing won the National Natural Science Award, making breakthroughs in many cutting-edge fields such as basic mathematical theory, artificial intelligence computing power and algorithms, protein science, semiconductor materials, and low-dimensional carbon nanomaterials, laying the foundation for building a first-mover advantage of an international science and technology innovation center.

Among them, two "post-80s" won awards as the first completers, showing the innovative vitality of young scientists.

Peking University Professor Liu Ruochuan presided over the completion of the "p-into Hodge Theory and Its Application" project won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, p-into Hodge theory is a core branch of the current research on arithmetic geometry and algebraic number theory, the project has made a series of major progress in its basic theory and application, solving some conjectures that have been pending for many years.

Chen Yunji, a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, presided over the completion of the "New Paradigm of Deep Learning Processor Architecture" project won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the project created the research direction of deep learning processors, becoming one of the most important research hotspots in the field of international computer architecture, and the new paradigm formed has been widely adopted by the industry.

The innovation leading role of Zhongguancun Science City is prominent

It is reported that the units in the Zhongguancun Science City area have presided over and completed more than 40 award-winning achievements of the 2020 National Science and Technology Award, and have made all-round efforts in major scientific discoveries, key core technology breakthroughs, and high-tech industry cultivation, etc., to achieve the organic connection of basic research, technology research and development, industrial transformation, radiation development and other innovation links, and the leading role of innovation has become increasingly prominent.

Among them, the project "Discovery of New Electromagnetic Materials and New Effects Based on Structural Primitives" completed by Chen Xiaolong, a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, which solved several key scientific problems of efficient exploration of new materials and new effects from structural primitives, and achieved a series of original achievements with international influence in the discovery of important high-temperature superconductors, new ways to induce magnetism, unconventional structures and new effects.

Tsinghua University Professor Li Junhua presided over the completion of the "industrial flue gas multi-pollutant collaborative in-depth treatment technology and application" project won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the project around the industrial flue gas in-depth treatment problems, in the core functional materials, key equipment, advanced technology and other aspects of important innovation and breakthroughs, leading the development of industrial flue gas pollution control in the field of environmental protection industry, for winning the blue sky defense war has played an important role in scientific and technological support.

Deep integration of digital technology and industry

Among the award-winning achievements in 2020, the development of the digital economy has achieved remarkable results, the digital technology represented by artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet has been deeply integrated with the industry, new infrastructure has accelerated the landing, new models have accelerated the emergence, new formats have accelerated growth, and scientific and technological innovation has driven the high-quality development of the digital economy.

Beijing Baidu Netcom Technology Co., Ltd. Professor Wang Haifeng presided over the completion of the "knowledge enhanced cross-modal semantic understanding of key technologies and applications" project won the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award, the project built a large-scale knowledge graph, through the knowledge of the correlation of cross-modal information, the use of language to describe the semantics of different modal information, so that the machine to achieve the integrated understanding of images and language, speech and language, for Unicom, China Eastern Airlines, Guangdong Power Grid, 65,000 companies, including CCTV, have provided cross-modal understanding capabilities, expanding the depth and breadth of AI applications.

Professor Qian Depei of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics presided over the completion of the "National Supercomputing Infrastructure Support Software System" project won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the project developed the national supercomputing infrastructure support software system, built a national supercomputing infrastructure and industrial simulation and other fields of application platform, provided support for the research and development of more than 1,000 scientific research projects, and greatly promoted the universalization of high-performance computing.

Tsinghua University Professor Tang Jie presided over the completion of the "intelligent scientific and technological information mining and knowledge service key technologies and their large-scale application" project won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the project broke through a series of fine knowledge, deep correlation, large-scale knowledge services as the center of the key technology, developed an intelligent scientific and technological intelligence mining system aminer, formed a series of products such as intelligent talent information, trend analysis, etc., serving 220 countries and more than 10 million users around the world. (End)

Source: China News Network