The National Science and Technology Progress Award is one of the five major awards of the National Science and Technology Award established by the State Council (the highest national science and technology award, 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).

It is usually awarded to Chinese citizens and organizations who have made creative contributions in the process of technological research, technological development, technological innovation, promotion and application of advanced scientific and technological achievements, promotion of high-tech industrialization, and completion of major scientific and technological projects and plans.

Certificates and bonuses are awarded by the State Council once a year, and are divided into two grades: the first and second prizes; special prizes may be awarded to citizens who have made particularly major scientific discoveries or technological inventions, and to citizens and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the completion of scientific and technological projects, plans, and projects of special significance.

The requirements for the grand prize are strict and the level is so high that it is completely better to have a shortage than an abundance.

Just look at the list of winners of the National Science and Technology Progress Special Prize in the eighties and nineties.

the breakthrough and weaponization of the atomic bomb;

the breakthrough and weaponization of the hydrogen bomb;

Research and design of China's first generation of nuclear submarines (091);

a new theoretical breakthrough in nuclear weapons;

liquid ground-to-surface strategic weapons and launch vehicles (Dongfeng-5);

J-5 and its modified aircraft, J-8 and J-8I. aircraft;

dynamic optical observation and measurement technology in modern national defense tests;

"Jianbing-1" re-entry satellite and "Dongfanghong-1";

testing communications satellites and microwave unified systems;

Yuanwang-1 integrated survey ship;

151-3/4 integrated circuit large-scale general-purpose computer;

Gezhouba No. 2 and Sanjiang Project and their hydropower units;

Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge and Chengdu-Kunming Railway New Technology;

industrial production technology of butadiene rubber;

Long-term high-yield and stable water injection development technology in Daqing Oilfield;

Research on the theory and practice of exploration of compound oil and gas accumulation areas (belts) in the Bohai Bay Basin.

Almost every one of them is of great importance to the defense industry and the national economy.

Yang Weining's CAD software, to say that it is difficult to compete for the grand prize, but there is no problem in competing for the first prize and the second prize.

After all, he has only made CAD software, and has not yet integrated CAD/CAE/CAM, if Yang Weining is given another year or two, there is no problem in making a special award.

Of course, if Yang Weining's AUTOCAD can really be exported to the United States and gain a firm foothold in foreign markets, it is not impossible to get a special prize.

Yang Weining is only 20 years old, and with such an award, the future development is completely worth looking forward to.

As soon as Yang Zhenguo told Yang Weining about the idea of applying for the National Science and Technology Progress Award, Yang Weining smiled and said: "Dad, Director Lu Wenjun has already talked to me about the application for the award, and after the expert review, the institute will start to apply for the Science and Technology Progress Award for me." ”

Yang Zhenguo smiled when he heard this: "Lao Lu is quite discerning, this CAD software you developed is of great significance to our country's manufacturing industry, and he is fully qualified to compete for this award." ”

The father and son chatted until nearly two o'clock in the morning, and Yang Zhenguo returned to the hotel where he was staying.

In the next two days, Yang Zhenguo led the U.S. delegation to visit the J-7 production line of Factory 132 and inspected the relevant manufacturing processes and facilities. It was not until the third day of the delegation's arrival in Chengdu that Yang Zhenguo led the delegation to the 611 Institute to communicate with their Chinese counterparts.

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Colonel Harper, the first military attache at the U.S. Embassy in China, studied in Singapore for seven years as a young man and is proficient in Chinese.

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1979, Harper has been assigned by the U.S. Department of Defense to China to serve as military attache at the U.S. Embassy in China, a position he held for three years.

Harper has always had a mixed respect for China.

His father had fought in the CX War 30 years earlier, and as a pilot of the F-86 Sabre fighter jet, he had faced the Chinese Air Force head-to-face.

At that time, in the face of this army, which had only been formed for four or five months, had only received dozens of take-off and landing flight training, and the average flight time per capita was only a few dozen hours of air power, the elder Harper and his comrades-in-arms were completely ignorant, and some of them chewed gum in their mouths when performing combat missions, and some hummed leisurely country songs, which did not look like performing combat missions at all, but more like playing a game to relieve boredom.

However, in the following two years and eight months of confrontation, although the Chinese Air Force was on the defensive as a whole, it showed the level of the world's top air power, shooting down a total of 330 "United Nations" planes, damaging 95, shooting down 231 planes, and damaging 151 planes.

In the battle with the Chinese Air Force, the Chinese Air Force was not afraid of death and fought with bayonets in the air, which shocked the US Air Force again and again.

What shocked Harper the most was an ambush campaign against the Chinese Air Force.

At that time, the U.S. Air Force set up a long-range radar station on Yamato Island, near the southern waters of CX, to monitor the Chinese Air Force taking off from Dandong.

Naturally, the Chinese Air Force did not want the Americans to put such a nail under their noses, and organized two bombing operations one after another.

The first bombing operation was very successful, and the Americans suffered heavy losses, but the second time, the Americans, who had learned a lesson, took advantage of the formation organization errors of the Chinese Air Force to give the Chinese bomber formation a beautiful ambush battle.

Under normal circumstances, it is very difficult for a bomber formation to fight back in the face of fighters, and once the fighters break up the formation formation, the bombers will lose their threatening ability.

However, when the US Air Force fighters took advantage of their speed and firepower to attack the bomber formations of the Chinese Air Force again and again, trying to break up their formations, the Chinese Air Force formations remained immovable.

Even though bombers were constantly hit and shot down, this formation was never afraid and successfully completed the bombing mission under the repeated attacks of more than 30 US fighters.

In that ambush battle, the U.S. Air Force shot down seven Chinese Air Force bombers and only two of its own.

But old Harper did not have any joy, because the Chinese Air Force still succeeded in destroying the radar station, and the Chinese Air Force's fearless sacrifice made all the US officers and soldiers who participated in the war shocked.

Later, when the elder Harper was chatting with his son, he once said something like this: "We have spent a lot of effort studying a question: What tactics does the Chinese Air Force use? After studying for a long time, we finally understood that the Chinese Air Force has no tactics at all!"

Ninety percent of the factors of this initial "tactics without tactics" were constructed by the Chinese Air Force's unique spirit of self-sacrifice, which is a fearless spirit of fighting bayonets in the air.