China will Turn out Nobel Prize Winners: Nobel Physics Prize Winner

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 ◆ China will Turn out Nobel Prize Winners: Nobel Physics Prize Winner

Chinese American Nobel Physics Prize winner Yang Cheng Ning said recently that China's conditions for turning out future winners of the prize will ripen as it continues to open up.

Yang was Speaking at a news conference to launch a series of Lectures by Contemporary Distinguished Scholar, including Yang himself, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Hong Kong's public library and the first anniversary of the Hong Kong Central Library.

Yang was asked to elaborate on the remarks he made earlier that China would see another Nobel Prize winner appear in the next 10 to 20 years.

Four pre-conditions are necessary for China to make substantial and significant contributions to scientific discoveries and turn out future winners of the prize, he commented.

"We need young people who can be honed for the task.... And a strong sense of determination is also very important," Yang said.

He praised China's sound tradition of emphasizing education for its populace as the third pre-condition.

Economic growth, which provides resources for nurturing academics, Yang said, is the fourth condition that China is expected to achieve even better, as China already enjoys an annual economic growth rate of 7 to 8 percent.

Yang won the prize together with another Chinese, Lee Tsung Dao, in 1957 for their penetrating investigation into the so-called parity laws, which has led to the overturn of scientist Albert Einstein's Law of Parity Conservation.