WIC Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology unveiled

On the afternoon of November 6, 2025, the Award Ceremony of World Internet Conference Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. Zhuang Rongwen, Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China and Chair of World Internet Conference (WIC), Francis Gurry, Vice-Chair of WIC, Wang Jingtao, Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, Ren Xianliang, Secretary-General of WIC, and Lu Shan, Vice Governor of Zhejiang Provincial People's Government attended the event and presented trophies and commemorative certificates to the representatives of the award-winning projects and to those recognized for excellence in organization.

Wu Hequan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chair of Review Committee of the Pioneering Science and Technology Awards, gave a speech at the ceremony and announced the list of winning projects. Representatives of the 17 award-winning projects delivered live presentations, sharing cutting-edge technological innovations in the Internet field.

As international science and technology awards in the Internet field and initiated by WIC, an international organization, the World Internet Conference Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology are designed to recognize annually the most pioneering Internet-related scientific and technological achievements, promote international exchange and cooperation in Internet technologies, and establish a high-calibre, innovative platform for showcasing and sharing the cutting-edge Internet achievements from around the globe. In 2025, the awards garnered extensive attention and active participation from the global Internet community, receiving over 420 submissions across three categories of basic research, key technology and engineering research and development from 34 countries and regions, fully demonstrating the vitality of global collaborative innovation in science and technology.

Projects of 2025 World Internet Conference Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology

(In alphabetical order of project names in Chinese)

Basic Research Group (2 projects)

1. QiMeng: Fully Automated Hardware and Software Design for Processor Chip

— Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor of the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Hu Xing

2. Fundamental Theory of Devices and Architectures for Memristor-based Computing-in-Memory Chip

— Tsinghua University

Research Professor at Tsinghua University Yao Peng

Key Technology Group (10 projects)

1. Key Technologies and Applications of BDS-3 Satellite Navigation Signals

— Tsinghua University

Professor of Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University Lu Mingquan

2. Key Technologies, and Scale Application of Smartphone Direct Connection to Tiantong Satellite System

— China Telecom Corporation Limited, Huawei Device Co., Ltd., Chinese Electronics Technology Group 54Th Institute, Hwa Create Corporation

Vice President of China Telecom Corporation Limited Liu Ying 

3. Key Technologies and Applications of Low-Altitude Intelligent Network

— China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd., EHang Intelligent Equipment (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd., Phoenix Wings Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Executive Vice President of China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. Chen Huaida

4. Key Technologies and Large-scale Applications of GLM Large Models

— Tsinghua University; Beijing Knowledge Atlas Technology Joint Stock Company Limited

Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University Dong Yuxiao

5. The Future of Industrial AI: Nokia Generative AI Agent Simulation and Training Platforms for Embodied Intelligence (NGAST)

— Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd.; SAIC General Motors Co., Ltd.

CEO of Nokia Shanghai Bell Cheng Gang

6. Synthetic and Real Data-driven VLA Embodied Intelligence Large Model

— Beijing Galbot Co., Ltd.; Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University; University of Hong Kong

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Peking University, Founder and CTO of Galbot Wang He

7. Script-Driven Multimodal Collaborative Hyper-Realistic Digital Human Technology

— Baidu

CTO of Baidu Wang Haifeng

8. Nanhu Computing Framework

— Zhejiang Lab

Research Expert of Zhejiang Lab Xue Hui

9. Open-Source AI Software Platform ROCm

— AMD

MD Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the AMD China Design Center Ji Longwei

10. Key Technologies and Applications of Practical Large-Scale High-Speed Programmable Photonic Quantum Computing Chips

— Chip Hub for Integrated Photonics Xplore.Shanghai Jiao Tong University.TuringQ Co., Ltd.

Director of Chip Hub for Integrated Photonics Xplore (CHIPX), Founder and CEO of TuringQ Jin Xianmin

Engineering  Research and Development Group (5 projects)

1. ALTO Mobile Robot Node

— ALTO Robotics

Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Co-founder of ALTO Robotics Sara Bellini

2. GitHub Copilot: New Gen Coding Agent

— Microsoft China Co., Ltd.

Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Head of Microsoft AI Asia Zhang Qi

3. Large-Scale Development and Production of the Spacesail Constellation Satellites

— Innovation Academy for Microsatellites, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Director of the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Hu Haiying

4. RAER Therapeutics: An Innovative Development Platform Focusing on the Treatment of Rare Diseases 

— RAER Therapeutics

Regius Professor of Precision Medicine at the University of Glasgow, Co-founder of RAER Therapeutics. Ross Cagan

5. Qwen: An Open-source Foundational Large Language Model

— Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd.

Partner and President of Public Affairs at Alibaba Group Wen Jia

List of Recipients for Excellence in Organization of the 2025 World Internet Conference Pioneering Science and Technology Awards

Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China

State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC)

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Beijing Municipal Internet Information Office

China Telecom Corporation Limited

China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.

Tsinghua University