The 13^th Huangshan Friendship Award ceremony was held on the morning of June 26, 2014. Prof. Herschel Rabitzwho , visiting professor of Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy Sciences, received the Huangshan Friendship Award from Guangming Liu,the director-general of Foreign Experts Bureau and deputy direct-general of Department of Human Resource and Social Security of Anhui Province. Prof.Feng Shuang chaired the award ceremony in the presence of Jianguo Liu, the associate dean of Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy Sciences,and YiZhang , the party secretary of Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Established by Anhui People’s Government in 1995,the Huangshan Friendship Award is the top award presented to foreign experts who made outstanding contributions to Anhui Province, and has been held 13 sessions successfully.

　　Heqing Huang spoke highly of the outstanding contributions made by Prof.Rabitz to development of Anhui Province in science and technology fields, and congratulated him for winning the Huangshan Friendship Award. Guangming Liu awarded the certificate to Prof.Rabitz. Prof.Rabitz said that he was really glad to maintain good cooperation relations with Prof. Shuang and other members in his lab. He also appreciated long-term stable support from Chinese government. Quantum control progressed rapidly in China, and lots of influential works came from Hefei, he was pleased to join the exploration journey with these Chinese colleagues. On behalf of Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Jianguo Liu expressed heartfelt thanks to Anhui People’s Government for the support. He also had a really strong desire to cooperate with Prof. Rabitz and make greater progress in exploring quantum control phenomena and training young scientists.

　　After the ceremony, Prof. Shuang held a workshop, and Prof.Rabitz presented newest breakthrough in quantum control.