The CPC Central Committee and the State Council held a grand national science and technology award conference in Beijing on the morning of the 3rd. Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Wang Huning, Han Zheng and other party and state leaders attended the conference and awarded prizes to the winning delegates. Li Keqiang spoke at the meeting on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. Han Zheng presided over the meeting. At 10:20 a.m., the conference began with the majestic national anthem. In the warm applause, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, first awarded the medal and certificate to academician Gu Songfen of China Aviation Industry Group Co., Ltd. and the academician Wang Dazhong of Tsinghua University, who won the 2020 national highest science and technology award. Congratulated them on their warm handshake and invited them to take a seat at the rostrum. Subsequently, Xi Jinping party and state leaders together with the two top prize winners awarded certificates for the delegates of the National Natural Science Award, the National Technological Invention Award and the national science and technology progress award. In his speech, Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, extended warm congratulations to all the winners, high respect to the vast number of scientific and technological workers across the country, and heartfelt thanks to foreign experts who participated in and supported China's scientific and technological undertakings. Li Keqiang said that our Party attaches great importance to the cause of science and technology and respects and cares for scientific and technological workers. Since China's founding novel coronavirus pneumonia has made remarkable achievements in science and technology in China. The vast numbers of scientists and technicians have made great contributions to the summit and made brilliant achievements. They have made important contributions in coping with the new crown pneumonia epidemic situation and protecting the lives and health of the people. China has opened a new course of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. We should take Xi Jinping's new socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics as the guide, take the new development stage into consideration, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, promote the development of high quality, persist in the core position of innovation in the overall situation of our modernization, and comprehensively improve the ability of scientific and technological innovation. We will widely stimulate the creative potential of society and shape new development advantages by relying on scientific and technological innovation. Li Keqiang pointed out that we should focus on the major strategic needs of the country, speed up the tackling of key core technologies, promote major scientific and technological projects, and promote mechanisms such as "showing leadership" so that those who are willing to innovate, dare to innovate and can innovate have the opportunity to show their skills. We will continue to strengthen basic research, respect scientific laws, promote the organic combination of free exploration and problem orientation, maintain the determination and patience of "grinding a sword in ten years", strengthen long-term stable support, guide enterprises and social capital to increase investment, deepen the reform of basic education, and strengthen the construction of basic disciplines in Colleges and universities. Create a good scientific research ecology that encourages innovation and tolerates failure, support researchers to be down-to-earth and work for a long time, and create more original achievements "from 0 to 1". Li Keqiang said that it is necessary to strengthen the dominant position of enterprise innovation and promote the in-depth integration of industry, University and research. Formulate more inclusive policies to encourage innovation and promote the agglomeration of innovation factors to enterprises. We will promote the integration and innovation of upstream, middle and downstream industries, large, medium and small enterprises, strengthen the protection and application of intellectual property rights, and open up a fast lane for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Li Keqiang pointed out that greater efforts should be made to break the red tape restricting innovation and creation, deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system, and effectively untie and reduce the burden on scientific researchers. Establish and improve a sound management and supervision system, implement the responsibility system, and ensure that the delegated powers and responsibilities can be connected and managed well. We will improve the evaluation and reward mechanism for science and technology. Cultivate a soil and environment conducive to innovation, so that more mass entrepreneurship and innovation entities can take root, blossom and bear fruit. Promote more young talents to come to the fore. Deepen international scientific and technological cooperation and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results in expanding opening up. Han Zhengzheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, presided over the meeting. He said that science and technology makes the nation strong, and science and technology makes the country strong. It is hoped that the majority of scientific and technological workers will take the winners as an example, continue to carry forward the glorious tradition of serving the country through science, vigorously carry forward the spirit of scientists, adhere to the "four orientations", take the initiative to shoulder the important historical task, and accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. We must unite more closely around the Central Committee of the party with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, unswervingly follow the road of China's own independent innovation, and strive for China's dream of building a world powerful science and technology and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Liu He, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, read out the decision of the State Council on national science and technology awards in 2020 at the meeting. Wang Dazhong spoke on behalf of all the winners. Before the award meeting, the Xi Jinping party and state leaders met with the winners of the national science and Technology Award and took a group photo with everyone. Ding Xuexiang, Xu Qiliang, Chen Xi, Huang Kunming, elgeng yimingbahai, Xiao Jie and Lu Zhangong attended the conference. About 3000 people attended the conference, including responsible comrades of relevant departments of the central and state organs and relevant units of the army, members of the national science and technology leading group, members of the national science and Technology Award Committee, winners of the 2020 National Science and Technology Award and family representatives, representatives of the capital's scientific and technological circles and student representatives. A total of 264 projects, 10 scientific and technological experts and 1 international organization were selected for the national science and Technology Award in 2020. Among them, 2 won the national highest science and Technology Award; 46 National Natural Science Awards, including 2 first prizes and 44 second prizes; 61 national technological invention awards, including 3 first prizes and 58 second prizes; 157 National Science and technology progress awards, including 2 special awards, 18 first prizes and 137 second prizes; 8 foreign experts and 1 international organization were awarded the international science and Technology Cooperation Award of the people's Republic of China. (outlook new era)