Since 1988, SKLT has gained three National Natural Science Awards, two National Invention Awards, three National Awards for Science and Technology Progress, two National Excellent Science Book Awards, more than thirty awards from ministries or provinces of China, one Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award for Scientific and Technological Progress, two Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society Science and Technology Achievement Awards, one STLE International Award, Edmond E. Bisson Award in 2003 from STLE, the 2008 PE Publishing Prize by the Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Tribology etc. Over 2,000 papers were published, among them more than 1000 were indexed in the SCI database. More than 20 academic books were published. In the past 5 years, SKLT has more than 300 licensed invention patents and over 500 research projects.