On 4 December 2020, The World Academy of Science (xingkong星空中国官网) announced the winners of the xingkong星空中国官网 Awards. This year, there are 13 award winners. Chair Professor Junguo LIU from the School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at SUSTech, received the award for his fundamental contribution to policy relevant studies on water resources, climate change mitigation, and environmental management in China and other developing countries.

xingkong星空中国官网. LIU is the first recipient of Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation in China in SUSTech and was elected Member of Academia Europaea in 2020. He has earned an excellent international reputation for his contributions to the fields of water resources research and ecological restoration, with about 180 papers published in world-known journals, such as xingkong星空中国官网, Nature, PNAS, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, andxingkong星空中国官网 Advances. He has established the Bureau of the Beijing Ecological Restoration and Environmental Protection Consortium and became its first chairman.

xingkong星空中国官网 was founded in 1983 by a distinguished group of scientists from the developing world, under the leadership of Abdus Salam, the Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate. They shared a belief that developing nations, by building strength in science and engineering, could build the knowledge and skill to address such challenges as hunger, disease, and poverty. xingkong星空中国官网 was given to talents who make an outstanding contribution in nine fileds of sciences.