Recently, while I was on a business trip to Shanghai, I was briefly informed that a Chinese-American scientist born in Henan had just won the Physics Nobel Prize, only the sixth ethnic Chinese to do so.

• 最近我到上海公干，有人通知我说，一位出生河南的美国华裔刚受颁诺贝尔物理奖，成为有史以来荣获诺贝尔奖项的第六名华人。