2016 National Science and Technology Awards were Announced

Our company won the State Technological Invention Award for the First Time

Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council held the National Science and Technology Awards Conference in Beijing Great Hall of the People, announcing the selection results of 2016 State Supreme Science and Technology Award, State Natural Science Award, State Technological Invention Award, National Science and Technology Progress Award and International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China. The “Innovation and Application of Subway Environment Security and High-efficiency and Energy-saving Key Technologies” filed by Comrade Li Guoqing and Comrade Meng Xin of our company was granted the second-class State Technological Invention Award, and this is the first State Technological Invention Award granted to our company and also in urban rail transit field of China. The winning of this award will further strengthen our innovation and the development of new power and improve our brand influence and competitiveness.

The “Innovation and Application of Subway Environment Security and High-efficiency and Energy-saving Key Technologies” is about an innovative invention achieved through more than ten years’ strenuous efforts in new technologies, design methods and technical equipment for subway environmental control series and used to solve the historical problems that have long hindered subway engineering construction and operation, such as high consumption, large occupation space and complex form of the environment control system. Our company has made a series of major international leading theories and technical achievements with proprietary intellectual property rights in China, obtained 14 national invention patent licenses and more than 20 utility models and software copyrights, developed and researched a series of products with proprietary intellectual property rights, and formulated many national and industrial specifications and standards. As the project achievements are generalized and extensively applied in the subway engineering construction of big cities all over China, they have significantly contributed to the implementation of strategic requirements on domestication of urban rail transit and equipment manufacturing in China and the realization of subway environment security, energy saving and emission reduction, promoted the technical progress in subway environment control industry, and have wide application prospect and significant promotion value.

It is known that upon three-level review respectively by the discipline review group, the review committee and the awards committee, there were 2 supreme award winners, 279 programs, 5 foreign experts and 1 international organization selected in 2016 National Science and Technology Progress Award. The “Innovation and Application of Subway Environment Security and High-efficiency and Energy-saving Key Technologies” was the only program recommended by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development which is shortlisted in 2016 and finally won the state award.

The well-known “Three Awards” of state technology prizes i.e. State Natural Science Award, State Technological Invention Award and National Science and Technology Progress Award, are mainly granted to winning units or program teams. Among them, the State Natural Science Award focuses on basic research and application basis research fields, such as math, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, biology and other disciplines; the State Technological Invention Award is mainly for programs in which scientific and technological knowledge is applied to make significant technological inventions in products, crafts, materials and systems, or for such citizens; the National Science and Technology Progress Award places more emphasis on rewarding the programs that can improve industrial level and people’s living, covering technical development, social welfare, national security and critical project fields.