The Shandong Science and Technology Innovation Conference was held on July 2 in the provincial capital Jinan, with 245 projects winning awards.

Shandong University had 30 projects that won accolades, accounting for 12.2 percent of the province's total.

Two projects by the university won the first prize in natural science, while another two came in first for scientific and technological progress.

The awards were established to cover science and technology, natural sciences, technical inventions, scientific and technological progress and international cooperation in science and technology in Shandong province.

The province's 2019 Top Science and Technology Award was given to Wan Shubo, a researcher at the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science. Three foreign experts were awarded Shandong's international science and technology cooperation prize.