On the morning of February 1st, 2002, CCPCC and the State Department held National Top Science and Technology Award Conference in People's Hall. Chairman Jiang Zemin attended the meeting and awarded certificates and money awards to academician Wang Xuan and Huang Kun who won the "National Top Science and Technology Award", which was carefully screened by national science and technology award work office, strictly reviewed by nearly 1000 experts and scholars, with results delivered to National Science and Technology Award Commission for careful examination, and to Science and Technology Department for further review, with approval from the State Council, it will be submitted to president Jiang Zemin for signature, which is the highest honor to outstanding scientists with contribution to science and technology development in the name of the country.
Processor Wang Xuan was born in Shanghai in 1937. In 1958, he graduated from department of Math & Mechanics of Beijing University with a major of computer math. Afterwards, he was consistently engaged with education and research in the field of computer science. In 1984, he was enrolled to be professor and Ph.D. Tutor in Beijing University , director of the institute of computer science and technology. From 1992 to 1994, he has been respectively chosen to be academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of third world academy of sciences, academician with China Academy of Engineering, now also working as director of the national key laboratory for word information processing, director of state engineering research center for electronics publication, chairman of board of directors with Fangzheng Stock Holding Co, Ltd, as well as positions as vice chairman of China Science Association, vice chairman of The September 3 Society of central committee, vice director with the National Peoples' Standing Committee and the education, science, culture and healthcare commission for National People's Congress.
Professor Wang Xuan has made major contributions to modern publication innovations in China . In 1976, he focused on technological thresholds of large quantity of chinese characters, large quantity of chinese character types and high resolution requirement for precision photo-typesetting, invented  high-magnification information compression and high speed recovery methods. He was the first one to use controlling information (or parameters) to describe features of width and turning shapes with strokes of chinese characters, so as to ensure strokes evenness and width consistency after character form modifications. This invention won European patents and 8 China patents. The scientific invention by Professor Wang has sucessfully solved the technical problem of digitalized storage and output for information of Chinese characters, bolstering the full-round development of chinese information processing technologies such as character encode, input and identification. Based on such technology, the chinese character laser phototypesetting system has been developed to be at leading position in the world; from the late 1980s up to now, the system had a wide market penetration taking 99% of mainland china's paper industry, 80% of magzine (black and white) market, as well as 90% chinese paper market in places such as Hongkong, Macau, Taiwain, North America, Singapore and Malaysia. The invention has brought new production value of over 300 million Yuan taking china printing technology from a time of lead and fire into a new century of electricity and laser, and has trigered profound innovations to global chinese paper industry and printing and publication industry, thoroughly changing technical transformation from lead typesetting to computer operations for publication and printing industry of China. Professor Wang Xuan has been honored as "modern Bi Sheng" and "the father of chinese character laser phototypesetting".
Professor Wang Xuan's invention of chinese laser phototypesetting system has won over 20 major awards home and abroad, including: twice 1st Award of national science and technology progress, twice with entitlement of national 10 major science and technology achievement, golden award for china patent and inventions, golden award for 14th Geneva international invention exhibition as well as special award for national major technological equipment achievements. Personally, professor Wang has won 1st Bi Sheng Award, Chen Jiageng Award, Science Award of UNESCO, He Liang & He Li Science and Technology Progress Award, Wang Danping Science Award, Pan Wenyuan Culture and Education Foundation Award in Taiwan as well as Hongkong Jiangshi Science Achievement Award etc. He has been repeatedly honored to be the National and Beijing Advanced Worker, Labor model, Capital Model and Award of Capital Spiritual Civilisation Construction etc.
By the same way of technical transformation, from 1991 to 1994, Wang Xua has lead team to consistently seize opportunities and conduct market guidance with innovative technologies triggering 3^rd technological innovation in paper and publication: skipping the paper fax machine, directly introduce new technologies of long distance file transferrence based on page description languages, realizing national sychronization and equal quality publication for newspaper publication; skipping traditional electronic color scanner, Wang Xuan has developed open type color desktop publication system through digital networking and color management technologies, achieving technical innovations of color printing; Wang Xuan has developed computerised integrated solution for news editting process management, realizing computerised management for major processes with newspaper office through internet technology. All the above achievements have powerfully promoted the technological development of news publication, which has become widely used for applications very quickly in both overseas and within the country, bringing technologies and application levels of China newspaper industry into frontline of the world.
From the early 1990s, Wang Xua has focused on the development trend from broadcast TV industry to digitalization and chosen the following approaches: leveraging on accumulated expertise and experiences in fields of word, picture and image processing, enabling R&D for digital media technology and making a breakthrough in new territories of media applications. Professor Wang has lead the team to consecutively develop multi-media software and animation software making, as well as digital master control system, network visual and audio making, news management, nonlinearity editting and virtual image setting technologies and products based on hard disk video server, which are all put into operation in broadcasting fields of CCTV and Hong Kong Asia TV. In late 1990s, oriented to development trend and features of information transmission in a time of internet popularity in terms of globalisation and network, the rearch team, under the leadership of Wang Xuan, has determined computer science to be the direction of subject research in applications of information dissemination. For facilitation of applicational research in fields of trans-media information dissemination technologies such as digital imaging and multi-media technology, word and image information processing technology as well as network application and information security technology etc, introduced new technologies and new products based on digitalisation and networking such as direct prepress, electronic book publication, prepress all digital chemical workflow system and network security system etc.
The popularity and application of the above innovative achievements have promoted technical progress and industrial structural revolution in press industry of China, boosting the transformation of traditional press industry to form a new industry of electronic press, has become one of the most well grounded and successful industries in field of computer technological innovations, as well as a model for high and new technical transformations in traditional industries, winning tremendous economic and social benifits. According to Wang Xuan, word press system's entry into overseas market can not be seen as a symbol of internationalisation, only by developing press system in fields of non-chinese word processing and entering advanced countries, real internationalisation can be achieved. In 1995, Wang Xuan went to Japan for an inspection, and found the press industry there is very advanced but prepress technology is not very sophisticated.Wang Xuan is confident that he can fully develop Japanese press system based on self-owned technology and enter Japanese market. Under his planning and organisation, in 1997, a new Japanese press system based on unique soft plugin technology, high integration and high stackability were bought by 2^nd magzine press in Japan, campared with formerly used American system, the production efficiency was boosted nearly 10 folds, annually saving expenses about 1000 million Yen, was considered to be the most advanced products among similiar systems in Japan. Acccording to Beijing Daily, "this is 1^st large scale export and sales for high-tech application software based on self-owned intellectual property rights and self-owned product brands among Chinese enterprises". Afterwards, newspaper forme system was also adopted by over 20 press in Japan . Then Wang Xuan lead Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd to develop Korean and western language press system, sucessfully hitting into Korean and European market, realising the goal of tranformation from a national software industry to international markets.
Wang Xuan's pioneering footsteps in technology and continual introduction of advanced products into the international market are attributable to its dedication with technological innovation. Under the macro-circumstances of international competition, making efforts to seek incentives at the frontline of market demand, the utiliaztion of great-leap-forward development for technological decision-making is the endless power and source for Wang's innovation, which has enlightening significance to how information industry in China face international competitions after China's entry into the WTO.