One individual and three research groups have been honored with the prestigious CAS Awards for Outstanding S&T Achievements for 2007. CAS President LU Yongxiang conferred the awards to the laureates at the closing ceremony of the Academy's annual work conference held on 26 March in Beijing. State Key Laboratory of Acoustical Field & Information was awarded as the outstanding research team. Academician ZHANG Renhe accepted the award on behalf of the institute.

The biennial awards were initiated in 2002 to recognize individual scientists and research teams for their significant achievements in S&T innovation. As a major reform of the CAS awarding system, it replaced three major prizes which had lasted for decades, highlighting researchers rather than the projects.　

Based on the accumulation of long-term research, State Key Laboratory of Acoustical Field & Information actively combined the research on underwater acoustics, digital signal processing and marine environment, innovatively put forward new theory on acoustic exploration and application, obtained great research achievements and gloriously realized significant breakthrough in the related research field. 

President LU Yongxiang and all the laureates

Prof. TIAN Jing and Academician ZHANG Renhe

The Medal