From Hai Xuan
Tsinghua University received the highest number of honors among China’s colleges and universities at the awards ceremony for the 9th Biennial Chinese Patent Prizes, given by the State Intellectual Property Office.
Tsinghua received one Gold Prize and five Excellence Prizes at the ceremony. The Chinese Patent Gold Prize went to Professor Yang Lin for his Digital Information Transmission Protocol and Terrestrial Digital Multimedia/ TV Broadcast System.
To date, Tsinghua has won 10 Gold Prizes and 17 Excellence Prizes since 1989, the most of any of China’s colleges and universities.