The incentive effect, existing challenges, and recommended measures of China's science and technology awards on talent development

As an essential initiative to stimulate the innovative potential of talents, scientific and technological awards are of great significance for advancing the construction of an innovative country. The academic community had conducted research and analysis on scientific and technological awards from aspects such as the comparison of domestic and foreign scientific and technological awards and the local award system and its effects. From the perspective of the entire life cycle, this paper focused on the stimulating effect of scientific and technological awards on scientific and technological talents and the challenges that they encounter. On this basis, it proposes suggestions such as improving the multi-level talent recognition system, correctly guiding the "Matthew effect" in scientific and technological awards, strengthening the supervision of scientific research integrity in scientific and technological awards, and so on.