ho leung ho lee foundation was founded in 1994 with a donation of HK$ 4 million from Hong Kong patriotic financiers He Shanheng, Liang Cong, He Tian and Sir Quo wei Lee. It is selected once a year to reward outstanding scientists in China and serve the country's modernization. Over the past 29 years, * * * has selected and awarded 1,526 outstanding scientific and technological workers.

the fund consists of "science and technology achievement award", "science and technology progress award" and "science and technology innovation award" (including youth innovation award, industrial innovation award and regional innovation award), with no more than 5 science and technology achievement awards each year and no more than 65 science and technology progress awards and science and technology innovation awards in total.