The 17th Soong Ching Ling Children's Invention Award was announced during the weekend in Beijing. This year, 423 works were honored across four categories.

Among them, there were 265 awards for inventions, 99 awards for artificial intelligence and coding works, 29 awards for creative projects, and 30 awards for scientific and technological paintings.

This year's selection was launched in February, and received over 20,000 submissions from more than 30,000 students from 3,800 schools in China, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

To echo national strategies of pursuing peak carbon and carbon neutrality goals and rural vitalization, subjects including "Climate Action" and "Revitalizing the Beautiful Rural Area with Science and Technology" were added this year to the creative projects category and sci-tech paintings category.

Zhang Zixuan from Chung Ling High School in Penang, Malaysia, was among the winners of the sci-tech paintings category. Her painting was Revitalizing Beautiful Countryside with Science and Technology. She said that China and Malaysia marked the 48th anniversary of diplomatic ties this year. She said that as Belt and Road countries, China and Malaysia should exchange advanced technologies to revitalize rural areas.

Another winner of the sci-tech paintings category Hu Yixuan was from Beijing E-town Experimental Primary School. He noticed the garbage disposal problem facing China's rural areas and designed a green medicine to classify waste and transform them into fertilizers for growing Chinese herbs. 

The Soong Ching Ling Children's Invention Award is the sole competition named after a national leader, approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and recognized by the Ministry of Education as a national sci-tech competition targeting primary and middle school students. The event has been held 17 times and attracted more than 1 million primary and secondary school students.

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