On February 1, 2001 (January 9, 2001 in the lunar calendar), Wang Xuan and Huang Kun won the highest national science and technology award. Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and awarded award certificates and bonuses to Wang Xuan (right) and Huang Kun, who won the awards. On the morning of February 1, 2001, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council solemnly held the National Science and Technology Awards Conference in Beijing. Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and awarded awards to the award-winning representatives. Hu Jintao, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice President of the State, presided over the meeting. Premier Zhu Rongji delivered a speech at the conference on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. Vice Premier Li Lanqing read out the "Decision of the State Council on National Science and Technology Awards for 2001." According to the decision of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the National Supreme Science and Technology Award established since 2000 is the highest honor awarded in the name of the country to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and technology. This conference is a grand meeting in the history of the development of science and technology in my country and a review of my country's science and technology level. Those who won the 2001 National Supreme Science and Technology Award were Wang Xuan (1937-2006), academician of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, and Huang Kun (1919-2005), academician of China Academy of Sciences and Institute of Semiconductor, China Academy of Sciences. More than 3000 representatives from the capital's scientific and technological circles attended the award meeting. At the meeting, winners and projects of the 2001 National Science and Technology Award were announced. Among them, he won 18 second prizes in the National Natural Science Award and 14 second prizes in the National Technological Invention Award; Won 17 first prizes and 174 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. German scientist Michael Petzet, American scientist Dr. Youdi Yang, Swedish scientist Bjørham Nordensheim, Canadian scientist Dr. Mao Huanyu, Japanese scientist Yoshiki Kuroda, Brazilian scientist Dr. Islar Vargas won the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China.