On the morning of June 24th, the National Science and Technology Conference,theStateScience andTechnologyAwardingMeeting of the People's Republic of China, and the AcademiciansConference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering were grandly held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the conference, presented awards to the recipients of the highest national science and technology award, and delivered an important speech.