Jiping Zhang was awarded the National Outstanding Youth Fund, the Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, the National May 1st Labor Medal, the National Advanced Worker, the National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker, the Third Prize of National Natural Science, the First Prize of the Ministry of Education’s Scientific and Technological Advancement, and the Chen Hsien-Shen Prize in Mathematics. He was the dean of the School of Mathematics of Peking University, the director of the Key Laboratory of Mathematics and its Applications of the Ministry of Education, and the president of the Beijing Mathematical Society.