Friendship Award (China)

The Chinese Government's Friendship Award (simplified Chinese: 中国政府友谊奖; traditional Chinese: 中國政府友誼獎; pinyin: Zhōngguó Zhèngfǔ Yǒuyì Jiǎng; lit.: 'Chinese Government's Friendship Award') is the People's Republic of China's highest award for "foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social progress".[1] The award was first established in 1950s, when it was awarded to experts from the former Soviet Union and East European countries by the then premier Zhou Enlai and the foreign minister Chen Yi.[2] On September 15, 1955, the Chinese government decreed that each departing Soviet expert be issued a medal.[3] This medal featured the flags of China and the Soviet Union along with the inscription "Long live the Sino-Soviet Friendship" (Chinese: 中苏友谊万岁; pinyin: Zhōngsū Youyì Wànsuì).[3] The friendship award was abolished with the Sino-Soviet split in the early 1960s. During the period that followed, in particular the Cultural Revolution, foreigners in China were often regarded as "spies" and very few remained in the country.[3]

The People's Republic of China Friendship Award
Awarded forForeign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social progress
LocationBeijing
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Presented byState Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs
State Council of the People's Republic of China
Reward(s)Medal, certificate
First awarded1950 (1950)

After the reopening of China, a new Friendship Award was reintroduced in 1991.[4] Since then, the winners have been selected by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) under the State Council.[5] The award is conferred as part of the celebrations for the National Day of the People's Republic of China (October 1).[2] The award consist of a medal and an award certificate. The medal is decorated with a picture of the Great Wall on the obverse along with the inscription "Friendship Award" in Chinese ("友谊奖", on the top) and in English (on the bottom). Besides the national friendship award, various local foreign expert awards are also being made at the provincial, regional, and municipal levels.[2]

Laureates
List of Recipients
Year Name Profession Field Country Institution Citation
1994 Horst Marschner Professor Germany University of Hohenheim [6]
1998 William Lindesay OBE Conservationist Environment United Kingdom University of Liverpool [7]
1999 Albert Roman Musician Music Switzerland
1999 Çetin Şengonca Professor Germany Universität Bonn [8]
2001 Roger Mason Professor Geology United Kingdom China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) [9]
2014 Branka Vucetic Electrical engineer Electrical engineering Australia University of Sydney
2019 Nils Christian Stenseth Biologist Biology Norway University of Oslo
2019 Bernard Bigot Physicist Physics France ITER
2019 Artem R. Oganov Crystallographer Crystallography Russia Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
2019 James Heckman Economist Economics United States University of Chicago
2016 David Andrew Phoenix Biochemist Biochemisty United Kingdom London South Bank University
2016 Wolfgang Kubin Sinologist Sinology Germany University of Bonn
2016 Katharina Kohse-Hoinghause Material scientist Material science Germany
2016 Peter Grunberg Physicist Physics Germany Technische Universität Darmstadt
2016 John M. Gray CBE Banker Finance United Kingdom HSBC
2016 John Hopcroft Computer scientist Computer Science United States Cornell University
2016 Anna Allabert Broadcaster Russia [10]
2016 Okyay Kaynak Professor Turkey Boğaziçi University
2015 Gerardo Dutto Physicist Canada TRIUMF
2014 Pericle Predielis Expert Agriculture
2014 Edmund Phelps Economist United States Columbia University
2003 Sebastian Zimmer Expert Germany
2012 Hemmo Luijerink Executive Heavy Industry The Netherlands Fuwa Heavy Industry
2006 Sabriye Tenberken Tibetologist Sinology Germany Braille Without Borders
2015 Ravi Singh Researcher Agriculture India International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center [11]
2007 Majid Samii Neurosurgeon Medicine Iran University of Mainz
2009 Geert Roelens Businessman Belgium Bekaert
2004 Erwin Reisch Economist Economics Germany University of Hohenheim [12]
2008 L. Reh Professor Switzerland ETH Zurich [13]
2005 Michael A. Price Project Management Institute
2010 Airaldo Piva Executive Industry Italy Hengdian Group Europe [14]
2010 Christne O'Sullivan Executive Canada SGMW [15]
2014 Ruedi Nützi Director Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland [16]
2009 Pedro Nueno Professor Spain China Europe International Business School [17]
2010 Rolf Müller Professor Germany Virginia Tech [18]
2004 Alan G. MacDiarmid Professor Chemistry United States University of Pennsylvania [19]
2004 Hans-Peter Liebig Researcher Agriculture Germany University of Hohenheim [20]
2011 Jeffrey S. Lehman Educator Education United States Cornell University [21]
2005 Kishō Kurokawa Architect Design Japan University of Tokyo
2007 Reinhart Kühne Professor Transportation Germany [22]
2011 Thomas W. Kensler Professor United States University of Pittsburgh
2012 Shin-ichi Kurokawa Professor Accelerator science Japan KEK [23]
2009 Yevgeny Kaspersky Executive Information security Russia Kaspersky Lab [24]
2009 Kirby Jefferson Executive Computing United States Intel
2012 Bikram S. Gill Director Agriculture United States Kansas State University
2007 Robert Fontaine Physician Epidemiology United States [25]
2012 Andreas DuBois Expert Renewable energy Germany [26]
2012 Bertram Brenig Professor Molecular Biology Germany Universität Göttingen [27]
2012 Colin Blakemore Professor Neuroscience United Kingdom University of Oxford [28]
2008 Werner Alpers Professor Germany Universität Hamburg [29]
2006 Peter Abplanalp Professor Business Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland [30]
2008 John L. Thornton Professor Global Affairs United States Brookings Institution [31]
2016 Fredmund Malik Economist Economics Switzerland University of St. Gallen [32]
2013 Daniel Cohen-Or Professor Computer science Israel Tel Aviv University

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