Nine years of compulsory education may not have told everyone how much weight the Huaxia Science Progress Award and the highest science awards carry, but the textbook passages about Madame Curie "A Beauty that Spans a Century" indirectly mention the Nobel Prize at an enlightening stage.
By the time students reach middle school, "The First Nobel Prizes Issued" further instills the original intent behind the establishment of the Nobel Prize in everyone's minds.
"The Nobel Prize is awarded annually to those who, in the past year, have made contributions to humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace efforts."
There are actually many major awards in the field of natural sciences, but in Huaxia, the most influential is definitely the Nobel Prize.
This award is also directly linked to the world's top awards in the minds of many Huaxia people; as for other awards, well, they're just that—other.