Awarding Ceremony of “Yunnan Science & Technology Prize 2008” was grandly held on June 16 in Kunming. Among the winners of the Prize, Prof. Dr. Zhang Yiping and his partners of XTBG were conferred on the Second Class Natural Science Award of Yunnan Province for their contribution to the project “Study on the urban climate in Kunming”.

Under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan”, Prof. Zhang Yiping and his team studied the characters of urban climate in Kunming (in low latitude and plateau area) and their interrelationships with buildings.

With implementation of the Project, 38 academic papers got published.