Heading on Full Sail Sailing - A word on Nobel Prize Award

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The Nobel Prize consists of five awards established according to the will of Mr. Nobel, namely the Physics Prize, the Chemistry Prize, the Peace Prize, the Physiology or Medicine Prize and the Literature Prize and aims to recognize people who have contributed to human beings in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine and literature. In 1968, the Swedish Central Bank added the Nobel Prize in the field of economics so as to recognize those who have made outstanding contributions in the field of economics. The establishment of the Nobel Prize is just like the Olympic Games of Science, which has far-reaching significance to promote the progress of human society and the development of world science and technology, and therefore has an immeasurable historical impact! To sum up, as the most well-known award in the world, its full value is to climb up world's highest peak and continuously reveal this world still known very limited to us. By the year of 2020, 934 people and 28 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize, and the United States has won 381, accounting for 43% of the total. The ten countries that have won the most awards are the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Russia, the Netherlands and Canada, all of which are among more developed economies.After the announcement of the Nobel Prize in 2022, many universities in China have changed their attention of the past, and demonstrated their close relationship with the winners. For example, Carl Barry Sharpless, emeritus professor of Shanghai Tongji University won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry again; Carl Barry Sharpless, emeritus professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry again; Anton Selinger, emeritus professor of Nanjing University won the Nobel Prize in Physics; Anton Selinger, emeritus professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, won the Nobel Prize in Physics; Alan Aspe, emeritus professor of East China Normal University, won the Nobel Prize in Physics and etc… Emeritus Professor is just an honorable title, and some people joke that it’s a hobby of rich relatives. However, I personally believe that the reform and opening up is just to achieve international integration and exchanges so as to constantly improve the level of our scientific research and competitiveness. Therefore, the ever increased influence of the Nobel Prize in China is a very positive change and progress.The Nobel Prize is obviously not only the honor for the winning individual, but an important sign of the improvement of science and technology for the country, although it could be often controversial in the field of non-natural science. Japan as our neighboring country with a high level of national education should not be underestimated in this area . Since 2001, an average of one Nobel Prize has been awarded every year and there have been already nearly 30 winners. Especially its Kyoto University, the country's first Nobel Prize in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry have all come from this university, which in return has greatly improved its international popularity.  No one can become a learned scholar by abolishing strong ambition and hard learning. In 2001, the Japanese government proposed a science and technology plan to win 30 Nobel Prizes in 50 years and had attracted countless hard irony and cynicism. After all, only 9 people had won awards in the previous 100 years. However, it has come true and there have been 20 winners in the following 21 years. Similarly, in 1953, Yale University conducted a survey of life aspirations and goals for graduates, and only 3% of them gave clear goals. After 20 years of follow-up, the survival of these 3% was significantly better than the remaining 97%. Therefore, only by establishing clear ambitions and goals can we have greater potential for success.According to the ranking of the world's latest science and technology competitiveness, it can be roughly divided into: 1) core, 2) developed, 3) entry into the room, 4) entry, 5) backward, such five levels. China is striving for the level 3). So there’s still some distance from those innovative countries. China's repeated historical lessons have made it determine to open up to the outside world. Survival in competition is therefore the only choice and repeat the same mistakes, the cost will be even higher. Therefore, there’s hardly any chance of turning back again and only until you have known well the weakness of your own, can you make yourself even stronger. Continuously deepen the market-oriented reform, improve the efficiency, and do more those difficult to accomplish well, can there be more and more qualitative improvements as we wish to achieve! The education level of a country is in a way directly related to the Nobel Prize. Personally, I am not an expert, and can hardly tell the difference between the exam-oriented and quality-based education systems. Many years ago, I took a short video entitled “An Integrated Day” of a British primary school. Through a plant planting, the teacher integrated the language, arithmetic, dressing, appreciation and etc. with games and fun, respecting particularly the development of their children's personality and creative cultivation. It seems to me the primary and secondary education in the west respects more children's personality development and creative cultivation rather than hard working or a big burden of homework. However, it would be entirely different after their entering colleges or universities, especially the top ones, all students would be fully aware of the hard working and pressures ahead in order to strive for the goal of better life. On the contrary, our domestic education is just the opposite. Our children with the high pressure and expectation from both their schools or parents receive too much hard working or homework on their childhood. However, after entering the colleges or universities, many of them would feel entirely released just like ships coming to the dock or cars arriving at the station with no more potential personality or ambitions for innovation left in their mind. Therefore, this system has often been very concerned by the society if it can also produce such commercial giants as Bill Guy, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and etc. . It’s the biggest challenge facing us and high time we did something about it before the education system for our younger generation can integrate into the world level! In a word, economic development lies in the progress of science and technology, and the progress of science and technology depends on the development of education. It’s a supreme honor to win the Nobel Prize and climb up the peak of science and technology. So in the process of creating "double first-class" universities and disciplines, China's institutions of higher learning should also have a more open mind and international vision, especially the Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Tongji and Jiaotong University, including all those 985 and 211 ones as well as their students need to establish even higher goals in terms of Nobel Prize Award and achieve more and more breakthroughs for the glory of our country , so that we can create more and more truly world level colleges or universities!