2017 Elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014 Xinhua Union Outstanding Contribution Award by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
2011 National Natural Science Award, Second Prize for the project "Terrane Assemblage and Collisional Orogeny in the Tibetan Plateau" (ranked first)
2011 Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA)
2011 Elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
2010 Ministry of Land and Resources Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize for the project "Terrane Assemblage, Collisional Orogeny, and Uplift Mechanisms of the Tibetan Plateau" (ranked first)
2009 Recipient of the 11th Li Siguang Geological Science Award
2008 Ministry of Land and Resources Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize for the project "Continental Deep Subduction and Scientific Drilling" (ranked second)
2008 Received a Special Government Allowance for Outstanding Contributions to Science and Technology from the State Council
2007 Awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress
2006 Ministry of Land and Resources Technology Award, Second Prize for the 10th Five-Year Key Project, "China's Giant Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphic Belt and North-South Plate Convergence" (ranked first)
2005 Honored as an Advanced Worker in the China Continental Scientific Drilling Program by the Ministry of Land and Resources
2003 Achievement Award for Returned Overseas Scholars, awarded by six central ministries, including the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Ministry of Human Resources, Ministry of Publicity, Ministry of Education, United Front Work Department, and Ministry of Science and Technology
1992 Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources Science and Technology Progress Award, Third Prize for the project "Kunlun Orogenic Tectonics" (ranked second)