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State Natural Science Award
The State Natural Science Award was started in 1957. The aim was to award the Chinese citizens who claim natural phenomenon, characters, regular and make great scientific findings in the fields of math, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geoscience, bioscience, engineering technology and other basic research, material and information.
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The Awards

There are five categories under the State Science and Technology Awards: State Pre-eminent Science and Technology Award; State Natural Science Award; State Technological Invention Award; State Scientific and Technological Progress Award; and International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China.

Hong Kong scientists receive State Natural Science Awards

Hong Kong scientists have again received significant recognition, with local researchers winning four second-class State Natural Science Awards (SNSA) in 2013 as announced by the National Office for Science and Technology Awards in Beijing today (January 10).

High-energy physicists win natural science award

Chinese high-energy physicists may have been dealt a blow when their recent proposal to build a next-generation particle collider more advanced than the Large Hadron Collider was turned aside by the government. Yet they have received recognition for research in other fields, with the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment winning a State Natural Science Award. The experiment involved more than 100 scientists from China, the United States and Russia, among others, in an underground facility located close to the Daya Bay Reactor in Guangdong province, lasting for two months from late 2011 to early 2012. They discovered a new "neutrino oscillation" - the transformation of one type of particle into another - which was previously a mystery left unanswered by two Nobel Prize winners.

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1 On 9 January, the State First-Class Natural Science Award went to Zhang Yaoxue, a computer scientist and member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Engineering, and his team.

2 The State Natural Science Award aims to reward citizens and organisations that have made outstanding contributions to scientific and technological progress.

3 Computer scientist Zhang Yaoxue was awarded the first-class prize of China’s elite National Natural Science Award on 9 January for innovations in a type of network computing that enables users to access operating systems or software residing on a different computer than on the user’s device.