The highest national science and technology award for the year 2023 was announced in Beijing on June 24th, and academicians Li Deren and Xue Qikun were honored by the Chinese scientific and technological community. Li Deren is a renowned photogrammetric and remote sensing scientist who has been committed to improving the level of Earth observation in China's surveying and remote sensing. He conquered the core technology of global high-precision positioning and mapping in satellite remote sensing, solved a series of difficulties in high-precision processing of remote sensing satellite images, led the team to develop a fully automatic high-precision aviation and ground measurement system, and made outstanding contributions to the construction of China's high-precision and high-resolution Earth observation system. Xue Qikun is a renowned scientist in the field of condensed matter physics, achieving multiple leading and important scientific breakthroughs. He led his team to observe the quantum anomalous Hall effect for the first time, which had a significant academic impact internationally; The discovery of interface enhanced high-temperature superconductivity in heterojunction systems has opened up a new research direction in the international field of high-temperature superconductivity. (Lai Xin She)