The winners of the 10th Future Science Prize, a prestigious award honoring outstanding scientists in life sciences, and both physical and computer realms, will be announced simultaneously in Beijing and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Aug 6.

The awards ceremony will be held in the special administrative region on Oct 26, coinciding with an expert-filled Future Science Prize Week, which will come to Hong Kong for the third time in the prize’s history, taking place from Oct 22 to 26.

During Friday’s media briefing, Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, co-chair of the Program Committee of 2025 Future Science Prize Week and president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, noted that this year’s prize week will be the largest ever, with over 100 top scientists, including four Nobel Prize laureates, coming to share their insights.

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The highlight of this year’s events are two “Hello Scientists” seminars, which will invite top scientists, including physicist Luk Kam-biu and chemist Yang Xueming, to deliver speeches.

Awardees of this year’s prize will conduct dialogues with teenagers during the prize week, aiming at increasing local youths’ interests in science.

A six-day exhibition featuring a combination of science and art will take place for the first time from Oct 22 to 27 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, as a parallel event to the prize week.

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Lo, a winner of the Future Science Prize at its inaugural edition in 2016, said he believed that the award underscores the scientific achievements across the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and can bolster Hong Kong’s status as an international innovation and technology hub, as well as further promoting innovation in the SAR.

Victor Wang Qiang, rotating chairman of the 2025 Future Science Prize Donor’s Congress, described Hong Kong as the most important partner of the event, recalling the scale of previous events in the city in 2023 and 2024 which garnered more than 70,000 on-site participants and 25 million online viewers worldwide.

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Last year's event, also held in Hong Kong, attracted nearly 70,000 people from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and as a result of its popularity, the HKSAR government added the Future Science Prize Week to its calendar of mega events, Wang said.

The Future Science Prize was established in 2016 to reward scientists who have made outstanding scientific achievements on the Chinese mainland, and in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Focusing on original basic scientific research, each prize includes a reward of $1 million. There have been 39 winners recognized so far.

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