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|presenter=[[President of the People's Republic of China]]
|country= [[People's Republic of China]]
|year={{start date and age|2000}}
|reward=8 million [[RMB]]
|holder_label=Number of laureates
|holder=29 {{As of|2017|lc=y}}
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{{Infobox Chinese|s=国家最高科学技术奖|t=國家最高科學技術獎|p=Guójiā Zuìgāo Kēxué Jìshù Jiǎng }}

The '''Highest Science and Technology Award'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cas.cn/ky/kjjl/gjzgkxjsj/|title=国家最高科学技术奖|website=Chinese Academy of Sciences|access-date=2018-02-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.cbt9.com/blog/2018/01/08/what-are-the-two-academicians-who-won-the-highest-science-and-technology-award-in-the-country/|title=What are the two academicians who won the highest science and technology award in the country?|website=news.cbt9.com|access-date=2018-02-18|archive-date=2018-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090546/http://news.cbt9.com/blog/2018/01/08/what-are-the-two-academicians-who-won-the-highest-science-and-technology-award-in-the-country/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ({{zh|s=国家最高科学技术奖}}) also known as the '''State Preeminent Science and Technology Award''', '''State Supreme Science and Technology Award''', or '''China's Nobel Prize'''<ref>{{cite journal|author=Cong Cao|date=June 2004|title=Chinese Science and the 'Nobel Prize Complex'|journal=[[Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy]]|volume=42|issue=2|page=158|doi=10.1023/B:MINE.0000030020.28625.7e|s2cid=144522961}}</ref> is the highest scientific award issued by the [[President of the PRC]] to scientists working in China. The award, given annually each January since 2000, is one of the five [[State Science and Technology Prizes]] established by the [[State Council of the People's Republic of China]].

The award comes with a prize of 8 million [[RMB]] (about 1.16 million [[USD]]), with 10% of this awarded, as a bonus to the scientist and the remainder awarded to support the scientist's research. 

== Award winners ==
;2000
*[[Yuan Longping]] - [[agriculturist]]
*[[Wu Wenjun]] - [[mathematician]]

;2001
*[[Wang Xuan (computer scientist)|Wang Xuan]] - [[computer scientist]]
*[[Huang Kun]] - [[physicist]]

;2002
*[[Jin Yilian]] - computer scientist<ref>[http://www.china.org.cn/archive/2003-03/01/content_1057075.htm Senior Scientists Win China's Top Award]</ref>

;2003
*[[Liu Dongsheng]] - [[geologist]]
*[[Wang Yongzhi]] - [[aerospace]] scientist

;2004
''Not awarded''

;2005
*[[Ye Duzheng]] - [[meteorologist]]
*[[Wu Mengchao]] - [[hepatobiliary]] [[surgery]] [[scientist]] and [[surgeon]]

;2006
*[[Li Zhensheng (geneticist)|Li Zhensheng]] - [[plant geneticist]]

;2007
*[[Min Enze]] - [[petrochemical]] engineer
*[[Wu Zhengyi]] - [[biologist]]

;2008
*[[Wang Zhongcheng]] - [[neurologist]]
*[[Xu Guangxian]] - chemist

;2009
*[[Gu Chaohao]] - mathematician
*[[Sun Jiadong]] - satellite engineer

;2010
*[[Shi Changxu]] - material scientist
*[[Wang Zhenyi]] - [[pathophysiologist]]

;2011
*[[Xie Jialin]] - physicist
*[[Wu Liangyong]] - architect

;2012
*[[Zheng Zhemin]] - physicist
*[[Wang Xiaomo]] - radar engineer

;2013
*[[Zhang Cunhao]] - physical chemist
*[[Cheng Kaijia]] - nuclear physicist

;2014
*[[Yu Min (physicist)|Yu Min]] - nuclear physicist

;2015
''Not awarded''

;2016
*[[Zhao Zhongxian]] - physicist
*[[Tu Youyou]] - [[pharmaceutical]] chemist

;2017
*[[Wang Zeshan]] - explosives specialist<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2127573/guns-germs-and-rice-how-winners-chinas-top-science-prizes-point|title=What China's top science prizes reveal about the country's priorities|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=2018-01-11|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Hou Yunde]] - [[virologist]]

;2018
*[[Liu Yongtan]] - radar technology and signal processing expert
*[[Qian Qihu]] - military protection engineering expert

;2019
*[[Huang Xuhua]] - nuclear submarine engineer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/11/c_138694930.htm|title=China honors distinguished scientists to drive innovation|date=2020-01-11|website=Xinhua|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111014712/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/11/c_138694930.htm|archive-date=January 11, 2020|access-date=2020-01-13}}</ref>
*[[Zeng Qingcun]] - meteorologist

;2020

* [[Gu Songfen]] - aerodynamicist
* [[Wang Dazhong]] - [[nuclear reactor]] engineer

;2023<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stdaily.com/index/kejixinwen/202406/814ededf2cb54d36b892d8685230b2ab.shtml|title=国家最高科学技术奖揭晓|date=2024-06-24}}</ref>
*[[Li Deren]] - expert in [[photogrammetry]] and [[remote sensing]]
*[[Xue Qikun]] - condensed matter physicist

== See also ==
* [[List of general science and technology awards]] 
* [[State Science and Technology Prizes]]

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