From technology to business: China's innovation attempts
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2016-08-16 11:27
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Professor Tu Youyou, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, at the award ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Dec 10, 2015. [Photo/IC] |
3. Medicine
Major headway was made in the field of medicine. Last year, Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou, now 85, became China's first medicine Nobel laureate. Tu was honored for developing Artemisinin, a drug therapy based on a traditional Chinese herb to treat malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world.
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