Today, 62 years ago, on June 23, 1963 (May 3, 1963 in the lunar calendar), Liu Cixin, the "first person in contemporary Chinese science fiction", was born. Liu Cixin Liu Cixin, male, Han nationality, born on June 23, 1963, joined the work in October, 1985, native of Yangquan, Shanxi Province, bachelor's degree, senior engineer, science fiction writer, member of Chinese Writers Association, member of Chinese Popular Science Writers Association, vice chairman of Shanxi Writers Association, vice chairman of Yangquan Writers Association, and one of the representative writers of Chinese science fiction. His main works include 7 novels, 9 collections, 16 novellas, 18 short stories, and some critical articles. His works won the Galaxy Award of Chinese Science Fiction from 1999 to 2006, the Zhao Shuli Literature Award in 2010, the third place in the top five novels of Contemporary in 2011, the best novel award of Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award in 2011, the best science fiction writer award of Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award in 2010 and 2011, the gold medal of short story award of People's Literature Rou Shi Award in 2012, the gold medal of the first West Lake type literature award in 2013 and the 9th National Outstanding Children's Literature Award. His masterpieces include the novel Supernova Era, Ball Lightning, the trilogy of Three-body Problem, etc., and the short and medium stories The Wandering Earth, Rural Teacher, Chaowen Dao, Full-band Blocking Interference, etc. Among them, the trilogy "Three-body Problem" is generally regarded as a milestone of Chinese science fiction literature, which has pushed Chinese science fiction to the height of the world. In November 2014, he became the producer of the film Three-body Problem. On August 23rd, 2015, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novel from the 73rd World Science Fiction Congress for "Three-body Problem", which was the first award in Asia. On October 18th, 2015, he won the 6th Global Highest Achievement Award of Chinese Science Fiction Literature for Three-body Problem, and was awarded the Super Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Medal. Only writers who won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award, the highest international science fiction awards, are eligible for this medal. At the same time, Liu Cixin served as the cloud architect of the three-body game developed by Youzu Network. In November 2015, he was selected as a candidate for "CCTV 2015 Science and Technology Innovation Person".