Upon the 90th anniversary of the foundation of Chinese Communist Party, the outcome of the Ten Pioneers of Zhijiang has been released. Director of academic committee of Engineering division Zhejiang University, chair of Institute for Thermal Power Engineering, Professor, doctoral supervisor, chair of International Cooperation Committee of Chinese Society of Power Engineering, academician Kefa Cen was elected one of the ten pioneers. This activity is hosted by leading group of performance excellency program Zhejiang Province, undertook by leading office of performance excellency program Zhejiang Province and Zhejiang Daily newspaper group, etc.
Academician Kefa Ceng once received the title of National Advanced Worker, National outstanding technical worker, National May 1st Labor Medal, National Outstanding Teacher, National Advanced Technical Worker of Senior Education, and Model Worker of Zhejiang Province. He has also received first prize of Guanghua Science and Technology Foundation, the second RuZiNiu golden globe Prize of Hong Kong Burlingame(China) education foundation, Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Award and so on.