On August 24, the 16th Forum of Chinese Inventors and the ceremony for the 12th Invention and Entrepreneurship Award · Award for Individuals were held simultaneously in Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Zhangjiakou in an online and offline form. The Chinese Invention Association announced the list of winners of the 12th “Invention and Entrepreneurship Award” in 2021. Professor Zhao Zhengming of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics (EEA) of Tsinghua University won the award, and Zhao Zhengming was also granted the honorary title of “Contemporary Inventor”.

Zhao Zhengming

Zhao Zhengming, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics, Tsinghua University, Director of the Electromagnetic Experiment Center of Tsinghua University, Director of EEA’s Research Center for Large-capacity Power Electronics and New Power Transmission, IEEE Fellow (Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and IET Fellow (Fellow of British Institute of Engineering and Technology). He’s mainly engaged in the basic theory of large-capacity power electronics conversion system, power electronics technology for energy Internet, wireless power transmission technology and so on. He and his team developed the first independent general-purpose power electronics system simulation software DSIM, breaking foreign ban on China’s relevant software. At present, it has been applied in more than 200 units in 15 countries around the world. He has published more than 600 academic papers, 8 scientific and technological books, obtained more than 100 domestic and foreign invention patents and more than 30 software copyrights, won the special gold award of the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, the first prize of the Technology Invention Award of the Ministry of Education and more than 20 technological achievements awards.

Invention and Entrepreneurship Award Ceremony

The 12th “Award for Individuals Outstanding in Invention and Entrepreneurship” is to implement Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, actualize Premier Li Keqiang’s instruction to “Cultivate fertile soil for entrepreneurship and innovation, explore and support talents in invention and creation, gather wisdom and strength, and make new contribution to speeding up the construction of an innovative country” given at the Seventh National Member Congress of China Invention Association, promote national mass invention and creation activities, and commend outstanding inventors and entrepreneurs. By selecting and commending a group of inventors who have made high level of technological invention and achieved significant economic or social benefits in entrepreneurship and industrialization, this award is established to carry forward their innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, mobilize the enthusiasm of the masses for invention and entrepreneurship, and enhance the creative vitality of the whole society. Meanwhile, through the selection activities, it supports a batch of potential technology-based enterprises that have successfully started their own businesses, make them bigger and stronger, promote scientific and technological self-reliance, and make new contribution to building an innovative country and a world science and technology power. In 2021, it picked out 102 winners of the 12th “Award for Individuals Outstanding in Invention and Entrepreneurship”, of which 18 with outstanding achievement were granted the honorary title of “Contemporary Inventor”.

Group photo of the 16th Forum of Chinese Inventors (Beijing)