On the 16th, the Future Science Awards Committee announced the list of winners for 2023. Chai Jijie, chair professor of plant immunology of School of Life Sciences, West Lake University, and Zhou Jianmin, researcher of Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, won the "Life Science Award" for their pioneering work in discovering disease resistant bodies and clarifying their structures and functions in plant disease and insect resistance. Zhao Zhongxian, academician of the CAS Member, director of the Academic Committee of the National Superconducting Laboratory, and Chen Xianhui, academician of the CAS Member, won the "Material Science Award" for their pioneering contributions to the breakthrough discovery of high-temperature superconducting materials and the systematic improvement of transition temperature. He Kaiming, a research scientist at Facebook AI Research Institute (FAIR), Sun Jian, the former chief scientist of Kuangsi (deceased), Ren Shaoqing, the chief expert in the research and development of NIO autonomous driving, and Zhang Xiangyu, the head of basic research at Kuangsi Research Institute, have made fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence by proposing deep residual learning and have been awarded the "Mathematics and Computer Science Award". The Future Science Award was established in 2016 and is a folk science award jointly initiated by scientists and entrepreneurs, aiming to reward scientists who have made outstanding scientific and technological achievements in the Greater China region. This award focuses on original basic scientific research and includes three awards: the "Life Science Award," "Material Science Award," and "Mathematics and Computer Science Award." It is held annually with a single prize of $1 million. (Reporter Sun Yu) (Xinhua News Agency)