Two young Chinese mathematicians Duan Haibao and Xi Nanhua were awarded the 10th Chen Xingshen Maths Prize on Monday in Weihai, a city in east China's Shandong Province.

The Chen Xingshen Maths Prize was established in 1985 in the name of the noted Chinese maths professor Chen Xingshen, with a Hong Kong entrepreneur patronizing the prize.

Up to date, the Chen Xiangshen Maths Prize has been granted for nine times, awarding 18 middle-aged and young Chinese mathematicians in total, which has become more and more influential in the maths circle both at home and abroad.

Duan Haibao and Xi Nanhua, the two prize winners, are research fellows with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Duan won the prize for his excellent research results in the fields of algebraic topology, differential topology and algebraic geometry.

Xi was awarded the maths prize for making breakthrough in the theories of algebraic group and quantum group.

(Xinhua News Agency July 26, 2005)