Alibaba founder, top scholars receive awards

Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, and four Chinese scholars were lauded in Shanghai on Saturday by the Fudan Premium Fund of Management, which awards the Chinese mainland's most prestigious prizes in the field of management science.

The Fudan Prize for Eminent Contributors to Management Science will be shared by Gao Ziyou of Beijing Jiaotong University, Yang Shanlin of Hefei University of Technology and Yang Xiaoguang of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The three stood out among 39 candidates for the original work they have accomplished in their fields, said Wang Shouyang, who won the prize in 2009 and helped judge this year's entries.