The Qiu Shi Science and Technology Foundation was established by Cha Chi Ming (查濟民) (1914–2007) in 1994 in Hong Kong, with the intention of promoting science and technology research in China, and to encourage and reward successful Chinese scientists and scholars.
[2] Qiu Shi (Chinese: 求是; pronounced ch-OO/sh-ER) means "seeking truth".
Qiu Shi Science and Technology Foundation is not related to the Qiushi journal, the political theory periodical.
Cha Chi-ming, GBM, JP, was born in 1914, in Haining County, Jiaxing, Zhejiang province.
[3] Members: Chen Ning Yang (a Nobel laureate in physics), Zhou Guangzhao (physicist, and honorary chairman of China Association for Science and Technology), Yuan T. Lee (a Nobel laureate in chemistry), Yuet Wai Kan (genetic researcher), David Ho (physician and innovator of the "cocktail" therapy for HIV), Andrew Yao (computer scientist and the first Asian A.M. Turing Award recipient).