Five academics from some of China's most prestigious universities and one based in the US are among six Chinese scientists named in this year’s World Economic Forum list of 25 scientists under 40 at the forefront of scientific discovery.
Each year the WEF compiles a list of young scientists, and this year’s line up has the highest proportion of Chinese since the project began in 2014. At that time there were no China-based scholars and only two Chinese from American institutes, out of a total of 30.