YNU's scientific research achievements make national list

The Ministry of Education of China recently announced the list of winners for the Ninth Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research (Humanities and Social Sciences) in Colleges and Universities, and Yunnan University, or YNU – located in Kunming, capital city of Southwest China's Yunnan province – made it onto the honors board.

The awards list is the highest honor in the field of philosophy and social sciences for universities.

The selected achievements for this round of awards were influential academic works published between Jan 1, 2018, and Dec 31, 2021, in the field of philosophy and social sciences.

A total of 1,496 achievements were given awards and seven from YNU were included.

Author Zhou Ping's China's Frontier and Frontier Governance won first prize for monographs and papers. Zhou Wei's Oral History of Xizang's Emancipated Serfs and Gu Yongji's Compilation of Ancient Historical Materials of 15 Unique Ethnic Groups in Yunnan each won third prizes for monographs and papers.

Writer Liu Yonggang's A Political History of a Small Town in Southern Yunnan, Wang Wenguang's Outline of the General History of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms, and Lu Shibao's Research on the Coordinated Security and Development of Water Resources, Energy and Food also won third prizes for monographs and papers.

Also triumphant was Zhao Puying's Bayesian Empirical Likelihood Inference with Complex Survey Data, which won a Youth Achievement Award.