The 2014 “Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation” annual prize-giving congress held in Beijing on October 29. Professor de-sen Yang of Harbin engineering university won “Science and Technology Awards” and become the first professor of Harbin engineering university who won the honorary。

Liu yandong, the member of the central politburo and vice premier of the state council, Chen zhu, vice chairman of the NPC standing committee, and Wan gang, vice chairman of the CPPCC national committee and minister of the ministry of science and technology, they were at the conference and gave prizes to the awardees.

In 2014, a total of 52 persons get Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award. Among them, there are two for "science and technology achievement award", 36 for "science and technology progress prize" and 14 for "science and technology innovation award".

Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award”, the award set up by Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, was founded by patriotic financiers He Shanheng, Liang Qiuju, He Tian and Li Guowei in 1994, which is designed to reward outstanding Chinese scientists and promote our country science and technology progress and innovation. The Award includes science and technology achievement award, science and technology progress award and science and technology innovation award. In 20 years, there are 1100 brilliant science and technology workers who have gotten the award.

Professor De-sen Yang has been engaged in scientific research work in the field of underwater acoustic engineering for many years and achieved rich fruits in our country. He has many academic positions: the convener of ship and marine discipline appraisal group of the state council degree committee , the vice director of China acoustics, a member of one expert group, deputy director of sound credit committee of national authorized terminology committee, director of the academic committee of the key laboratory for underwater acoustic technique. For 30 years, under the guidance of the older generation acoustic scientists, he has gotten many achievements, of which 2 items won national scientific and technological progress second prize, one item won national scientific and technological progress third prize, and 13 items won provincial science and technology progress prize. At the same time, he got several national authorized invention patents, and published more than 100 papers and 2 monographs. He enjoys special government allowances now. And he has won a number of honorary titles: the outstanding young and middle-aged experts, national hundreds cross-century talents, province top ten youth of science and technology, outstanding communist party member, the education system model, the national defense science and technology 511 talents and so on. In 2010 he was awarded as "scientific Chinese person of the year" and got the award "ma acoustics prize", which is academic achievement in acoustical society of our country. In 2012, his team was named "outstanding innovation team of the ministry of education”.