A woman winning science award will promote gender equality

IN ORDER TO MAKE THE FUTURE SCIENCE PRIZE "CHINA'S NOBEL PRIZE", the Chinese science prize committee should adopt a more open and inclusive attitude toward researchers and encourage scientific innovation. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

The winners of the 2019 Future Science Prize were announced on Saturday. They are Shao Feng, a professor at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Peking University, for life sciences; Wang Yifang, a professor at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Luk Kam-Biu, a professor at the Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, for physical science; and Wang Xiaoyun, a professor at Tsinghua University, for mathematics and computer science.

A group of scientists and entrepreneurs established Future Science Prize in 2016 with the aim of making it "China's Nobel Prize". The prize worth $1 million is given to scientists for original and innovative research in life sciences, physical science, and mathematics and computer science irrespective of their nationality.