On February 19, 2001 (January 27, 2001 in the lunar calendar), Wu Wenjun and Yuan Longping won the 2000 State Preeminent Science and Technology Award. The State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, founded in 2000, was submitted to the President of the State for signature and issuance of certificates and bonuses. The amount of bonus shall be prescribed by the State Council. The prize amount for the winner is RMB 5 million. The award was established in 2000. On February 19th, 2001, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council held a grand National Science and Technology Awards Conference in Beijing. Wu Wenjun, a researcher at Institute of Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yuan Longping, a researcher at Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, won the first State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2000 for their outstanding contributions to basic research, technology development and industrialization, and each received a bonus of 5 million yuan. Five major science and technology awards, namely the National Natural Science Award, the National Technological Invention Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China, were announced and awarded at the same time. There are 2,612 winners. Wu Wenjun Wu Wenjun was born in Shanghai on May 12th, 1919. He is a world-famous mathematician, a researcher and honorary director of the Institute of Systems Science, Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and honorary chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society. One of the founders of mathematical mechanization research in China, currently honorary director and researcher of Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and academician of Third World Academy of Sciences; He used to be the chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society (1985-1987), the director of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1992-1994), and a member and standing committee member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1979-1998). He has made outstanding contributions in topology, automatic reasoning, machine proof, algebraic geometry, history of Chinese mathematics, game theory and other research fields, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. He has made a series of important achievements in the research of indicative classes and indicative embedding classes in topology, which is the foundation work in topology and has many important applications. His "Wu Method" has a great influence in the field of international machine proof, and has a wide range of important application values. At present, the main symbolic calculation software popular in the world has implemented Professor Wu Wenjun's algorithm. He won the first National Natural Science Award (1956), the first Natural Science Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (1979), the Third World Academy of Sciences Mathematics Award (1990), the Chen Jiageng Mathematical Science Award (1993), the first Hong Kong Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation Outstanding Scientist Award (1994), Herbrand Automatic Reasoning Outstanding Achievement Award (1997), the first State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (2000) and the third Shaw Mathematics Award (2006). Yuan Longping Yuan Longping (1930.9-), a native of De'an County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, was born in Beijing. The founder of hybrid rice research in China, known as the "father of hybrid rice", "contemporary Shennong" and "rice god". Yuan Longping graduated from the Department of Agriculture of Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. After graduation, he has been engaged in agricultural education and hybrid rice research. From 1980 to 1981, he went to the United States as the technical director of the International Rice Research Institute. In 1982, he served as deputy head of the National Hybrid Rice Expert Advisory Group. In 1991, he was employed as the chief international consultant of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In 1995, he was elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Since 1971, he has been a researcher at Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vice chairman of Hunan Provincial Political Consultative Conference, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center. Prior awards: 2000 Wu Wenjun (1919-, world-famous mathematician) Yuan Longping (1930-, father of hybrid rice) 2001 Wang Xuan (1937-2006, founder of Chinese character laser phototypesetting system) Huang Kun (1919-2005, famous physicist) 2002 Jin Yilian (1929-, famous expert in the field of high-performance computers) 2003 Liu Dongsheng (1917-, famous aerospace technology expert)