(240624) -- BEIJING, June 24, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Xue Qikun walks in Tsinghua University in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 17, 2017. Xue Qikun won China's top sci-tech award for the year 2023 Monday. Xue is a distinguished scientist of condensed matter physics, who has achieved multiple scientific breakthroughs. His team made the first experimental observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect. They also discovered interface-enhanced high-temperature superconductivity in the heterostructure system, which opened up a new direction of research in the field of high-temperature superconductivity. (Photo by Yuan Jie/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM