On July 23, 2026, at the opening ceremony of the 2026 International Mathematicians' Conference, the International Mathematical Union officially announced the list of winners of the 21st Fields Medal. Chinese mathematicians Wang Hong and Deng Yu both won awards. This is also the first time that Chinese mathematicians have won two medals at the same Fields Awards. “I'm very happy. For the Chinese math community, this is a wish we have been looking forward to for decades.” After hearing the good news, Qiu Chengtong, a famous mathematician and the first Chinese winner of the Fields Medal, director of the Qiu Chengtong Mathematical Science Center at Tsinghua University and dean of Qiuzhen Academy, said in an interview with the media. Qiu Chengtong said that he had always expected at least one Chinese mathematician to win the award; he didn't expect two outstanding young mathematicians to win this award. This made him particularly excited. He believes that the key to Wang Hong and Deng Yu standing out from many outstanding scholars is the originality and importance of their achievements. They solved problems that had been pending for a long time. Through the accumulation of generations of scholars, they finally made a critical leap forward, so their results were widely recognized by the international mathematical community.

On July 23, 2026, at the opening ceremony of the 2026 International Mathematicians' Conference, the International Mathematical Union officially announced the list of winners of the 21st Fields Medal. Chinese mathematicians Wang Hong and Deng Yu both won awards. This is also the first time that Chinese mathematicians have won two medals at the same Fields Awards. “I'm very happy. For the Chinese math community, this is a wish we have been looking forward to for decades.” After hearing the good news, Qiu Chengtong, a famous mathematician and the first Chinese winner of the Fields Medal, director of the Qiu Chengtong Mathematical Science Center at Tsinghua University and dean of Qiuzhen Academy, said in an interview with the media. Qiu Chengtong said that he had always expected at least one Chinese mathematician to win the award; he didn't expect two outstanding young mathematicians to win this award. This made him particularly excited. He believes that the key to Wang Hong and Deng Yu standing out from many outstanding scholars is the originality and importance of their achievements. They solved problems that had been pending for a long time. Through the accumulation of generations of scholars, they finally made a critical leap forward, so their results were widely recognized by the international mathematical community.