Prof Jie Zhang, AAPPS President 2008–2010, was awarded the title of AAPPS Honorary Fellow during the 14th annual workshop on frontiers of optics in Xiong-an in September 2023. The certificate was presented to Jie by Prof. Guozhen Yang, former president of CPS. Prof. Gui-Lu Long, President of AAPPS 2017–2019, chaired the ceremony. In the introduction speech, Gui-Lu summarized the three major contributions of Jie Zhang to AAPPS. First, he made a series of contributions to enhance the profile of AAPPS in various ways; second, he started the Asia-Europe Physics Summit, which has been a regular series and a close link between AAPPS and EPS; third, he restarted the publication of AAPPS Bulletin after a stop of more than 1 year. Prof. Jie Zhang is the current president of CPS (Fig. 2).

From left to right: Guozhen Yang, Jie Zhang, and Gui-Lu Long

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