On Jan.14, 2011, National Science and Technology Awards Conference held at the Great Hall of people. The innovation and application for rapid recovery of vegetation on severe soda saline land awarded the 2010 National Science and Technology Progress Award, which completed by Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology. Zhengwei Liang on behalf of the project team attended the ceremony. He met with Chairman Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, and Li Changchun, Standing Committee, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, and other party and state leaders.