On Jan 9th, 2015, the National Science and Technology Award Conference of the year 2014 was held in the Great Hall of the People, the President Xi Jinping, the Prime Minister and other leaders presented the awards.Key Mining Technology and Equipment for Big-Cutting & Fully Mechanized to Super-Thick Coal Seam developed by leading company China Coal Technology & Engineering Group Corporation,  won Grade A Prize of National Science & Technology Progress Award. 
By this innovation of high-cutting fully mechanized technology, creating three-dimensional top-laying theory and equipped complete set of mining machinery,that is the first set of machinery with annual production capacity more than 10M tons coal, and solving international difficulties of mining to super-thick coal seam about 14~20 meters, that makes China a leading position in thick coal mining and promote scientific progress of coal industry.