The China Association for Science and Technology has innovatively built an STID platform and created a "scientific and technological ID card" to achieve unique identification of talents with the unique code of scientific and technological talents. The 2023rd National Innovation Competition Award in <> adopts the method of "paperless nomination and review" to achieved "zero submission" of paper materials for candidates and nominating units.

The selection and commendation process has the characteristics of outstanding value leadership, innovative talent evaluation mechanism, and insistence on creating a good scientific research ecology.