Beijing: A new science award with a million-dollar prize was announced to honour China’s top scientists with a view to creating China’s own version of Nobel Prize.
The Future Science Awards were initiated by a group of elite Chinese scientists and business leaders, including Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and winner of Gregori Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Rao Yi, president of life sciences of Peking University, Robin Li Yanhong, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, and Yang Yuanqing, CEO of Lenovo.