Man of steel offers China solid advice

Editor's note: China announced its top science awards - considered the country's answer to the Nobel Prize - on Feb 14. Among the laureates were eight foreign scientists, who won the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award for their contribution to China's science and technology progress. China Daily talked with two of them and shared their experience and vision about China's future in the sector.

BEIJING - Chinese steel companies are rapidly catching up with their Japanese counterparts in manufacturing high-quality products.

That's the message from Toshihiko Emi, director of the Institute of Research of Iron and Steel, Shasteel, who was awarded the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award in Beijing earlier this month.