Abstract: Abstract: Tu Yo-yo won Lasker Award on her scientific finding-artemisinin, which triggered a debate about individual scientists and Tu Yo-yo won Lasker Award on her scientific finding-artemisinin, which triggered a debate about individual scientists and collective scientists in science awards in China. Based on clarification to the collaboration background and discovery process of artemisinin, its value orientation of “collective presence” for collective signature and collective award-winning in Chinese science recognition and award, and its value orientation of “individual presence” for focus on originality and personal discovery priority are demonstrated and compared. Finally, the paper discusses how to deal with the relationship between the individual and the collective in scientific award and indicates that there is a close link between individual-oriented reward and social structure based on individual property,collective-oriented reward and public property. And considers the two reward systems have advantages and disadvantages, how to better deal with the relationship between science award in the collective and individual remains a problem worthy of study in the system design.