Yanoda Ecological Literature Prize is one of the most influential ecological literature awards in China. The translation The Singing Wilderness by Professor Cheng was recommended by the SDX Joint Publishing Company. The award received 1287 works and four came out as winners, with another four nominated.

At the news, Professor Cheng made the decision of donation in a bid to support CUEB’s ecological civilization education and teaching activities in nature writing. She also entrusted the director of the library to participate in the awarding ceremony and receive the prize.

 “On hearing of my translation The Singing Wilderness winning the award, I was a little surprised,” Professor Cheng mentioned in her acceptance speech, “for it never occurred to me that my translation was recommended. But I reckon it good news to both the country and myself that there is such an ecological literature prize. For it would help raise people’s awareness of ecological conservation through literature. For me personally, from 1995, I devoted myself to the study and teaching of nature writing, which is driven by my strong passion. For the country, this award would help deepen the understanding of sustainable development through literature. I have taught in universities for over thirty years and have been fond of my job. I decide to donate the prize to American Ecological Literature Collection of CUEB library in order to express my attachment to education, to share the spiritual value of this award with more teachers and students and to enrich the academic resources from home and abroad in nature writing and ecological literature. I extend my thanks to the judges for offering me the opportunity to support our ecological literature studies.”

The publication of Return to the Wilderness written by Professor Cheng in 2001, the first work in China which made a systematic introduction of American nature writing, drew the attention of the Chinese scholars to the research on nature writing. She was also invited to host a column named Rereading Nature in Wenjing, a monthly journal on literature and art, to introduce systematically the big names and masterpieces of British and American Nature Writing to Chinese readers.Tranquility is Beyond Price: British and American Nature Writers (published by Shanghai People's Publishing House in 2009, republished in 2014) was a collection of these essays. In the past decade, she has translated a series of classic works including Wake-Robin(2004), The Outermost House(2007), Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place(2010) andThe Singing Wilderness(2012). These works arouse readers’ zeal on nature writing. Her work American Nature Writing was published in 2013 by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. Since then, CUEB has accumulated works, translations and textbooks on nature writing.

In October 2011, Professor Barton Levi St. Armand from Brown University presented nearly a thousand volumes of fine English books to Professor Cheng Hong. The books constituted the original American Ecological Literature Collection located in ancient books reading room. Most of the collection are from individual collectors. The collection ranges from British and American classics to leading works and core journals on ecocriticism and literary theories. Professor Cheng gave a keynote lecture on “Ecology and American Literature Collection” to teachers to help them realize the value of the collection and make better use of it.

On October 31^st 2015, CUEB hosted 2015 University Ecological Civilization Education Forum. On the sub-forum of the development of natural literature and ecological culture education, Professor Cheng delivered a speech on “Three Dimensional Scapes in Nature Writing: Landscape, Soundscape and Soulscape”.