On November 3, the ceremony of the National Science & Technology Awards 2020 was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Five projects that NEU led and participated in won the National Science & Technology Awards 2020. Among them, one project NEU led and one project NEU participated in won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, and two projects NEU led and one project NEU participated in won the second prize of the National Science & Technology Progress Award. This is a new great achievement of NEU after the breakthrough it had made in the National Science & Technology Awards 2019.
Over the years, aimed at the international frontier of science and technology, NEU has made a series of original scientific and technological achievements, formed unique advantages in technological innovation, technology transfer and achievement transformation, explored an effective way of industry-university-research integration and innovation as well as collaborative education, and achieved a sound interactive development of disciplines, talents and scientific research. It has been making great efforts to develop into a “world-class university with Chinese characteristics” that plays a leading role in China’s new industrialization process.
