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The 2024 Shaw Prize Award Ceremony was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on November 12. Chief Executive Lee Ka-chiu attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. A total of five scientists have won awards this year, including four 2024 Shaw Laureates and one 2021 Laureate.
In his speech, Li Jiachao said that through the Shaw Prize, young people in Hong Kong can witness with their own eyes the infinite possibilities of science as a career and lifestyle. He also mentioned that Hong Kong is vigorously promoting the research and development of medical technology, artificial intelligence and robotics, and the government has established an Education, Technology and Talent Committee.It is expected that by the 2026-2027 academic year, students studying STEM subjects will account for approximately 35% of all students in public universities.
This year's Shaw Prize winners have made outstanding contributions in the fields of astronomy, life sciences and medicine, and mathematical sciences. Among them, Shrinivas Kulkarni won the Astronomy Award for his groundbreaking discoveries of millisecond pulsars, gamma ray bursts, supernovae and other celestial objects; Deng Ruili and Stuart Okin won the Astronomy Prize for their discovery of fetal to adult hemoglobin conversion. Genes and molecular mechanisms, and jointly won the Life Science and Medicine Award for pioneering genome editing therapy for the treatment of sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia; Peter Sarnak for his research in the fields of number theory, analysis, combinatorics, etc. He won the Mathematical Science Award for his outstanding contributions, especially the development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve method.
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The Hong Kong government has actively promoted STEM education in recent years. Li Jiachao mentioned the STEM student ratio target in his speech, reflecting the government's emphasis on cultivating scientific and technological talents. It is worth noting that in addition to increasing the proportion of STEM students, how to improve the quality of teaching is also equally important. The government should invest more resources in teacher training and curriculum development so that students can not only master STEM knowledge but also develop innovative thinking and problem-solving abilities. In addition, primary and secondary schools should also actively introduce technological elements into teaching, so that students can be exposed to and experience technology from an early age, and enhance learning interest and effectiveness.
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https://www.tkww.hk/a/202411/12/AP67336226e4b0f8a56f6fe514.html
