Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Decision on the 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award for Research in of Institutions of Higher Education (Science and Technology)”.（No.4〔2019〕Educational Technology）The scientific research of“Key Techniques and Application of New Regional Rural Green Architectural Design” won the first prizeof the Science and Technology Progress Award. Academician Liu Jiaping, Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Building and Energy-efficiency Technology, was in charge of the research, with Xie Jingchao participating in completing it.

The resultestablishesthe green “technicalprototype” theory for regional traditionalarchitecture, builds the new green“technical prototype”reconstruction principle, methods, and designsscience basis for regional rural architecture, and creates three types of regional rural green architecture technical prototypes and puts them into practice. More than 1,100 regional rural green demonstration buildings have beenbuiltin Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shanxi and Sichuan, covering 160,000 square metersof floor space. The resident satisfaction reached 95%, with the energy consumption per household decreasing by more than 65%. The research result has been applied in green rural construction, driving rural sustainable development and promoting the inheritance of regional architectural culture.

It is reported that after the evaluation of the review committee, and the approval of the awards committee andthe Ministry of Education,the 2019 Outstanding Achievement Awards for Research of Institutions of Higher Education (Science and Technology) areawarded to 315 projects(12 special projects), in which 120 projects won theNatural Science and TechnologyAward, including 40 first prizes;49 projects won theTechnology Invention Award, including 27 first prizes; 136 projects won theScience and Technology Progress Award, including one grand prize and 49 first prizes;10 people won the Youth Scientist Award.