Nanjing University raked five first prizes and other prizes at the 2016 Jiangsu Science and Technology Awards Conference.
The meeting, held in Nanjing on the morning of February 24th, commended those who had made great contributions to China’s and Jiangsu’s scientific and technological development and the modernization drive.
Provincial Party Secretary Li Qiang, Governor Shi Taifeng and other leaders of the provincial Party committee, people's congress, government and CPPCC attended the meeting. Executive Vice Governor Huang Lixin presided over the meeting and Vice Governor Zhang Jinghua read out the two decisions by the provincial government on the 2016 Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Awards and on the announcement of the first Jiangsu Provincial Patent Inventor Awards.
President Chen Jun, Nanjing University, attended the award ceremony, and Professor Shi Yi, of the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, made a speech on behalf of all the awards winners.
This year, 187 projects won the 2016 Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Awards, and of the 187, 30 were awarded first prizes. There were also eight Jiangsu International Science and Technology Cooperation Award winners and 10 Jiangsu Provincial Patent Inventor Award winners.
Nanjing University won five first prizes and is one of two biggest winners.
These five first-prize winning projects are:
The distributed collaboration technology and application oriented toward the ubiquitous service;
The nanostructure control and integration and device application of semi-conductor;
The construction of high energy photoelectrode and the study of solar energy - chemical energy conversion;
The study of the mantle properties and the crust-mantle interactions in Southeast China; and
New methods for recognition and photoelectric analysis of tumor-associated markers.
In addition, Professor Li Aimin, of the School of the Environment, received the first Jiangsu Provincial Patent Inventor Award, and Professor Markku Kulmala, a Finnish scientist who works closely with the School of Atmospheric Sciences, received the Jiangsu International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.
In recent years, Nanjing University has attached great importance to problem-solving in scientific and technological work. That is, based on the major needs of the country and the international academic frontier, it has carried out the technological innovation program.
This problem-oriented approach has contributed the speeding up of building the university into one with double first-rate and building Jiangsu into a strong, prosperous, beautiful and developed province.
President Chen Jun and Winners on the conference
