Design and Planning Award, five Chinese human settlements model awards, two world best landscape awards, two international young architects excellence awards, three world outstanding waterfront design awards, and other important awards at home and abroad, such as the 2008 World Architecture Award, the 2009 ULI Global Outstanding Award, and the gold medal of the 10th China Art Exhibition. These works have won international fame for their modernity and distinctive China characteristics, as well as their ecological and humanistic spirit. He regards urban and landscape design as "the art of survival" and advocates the design concept of vernacular landscape, "anti-planning" theory, Bigfoot revolution and Bigfoot aesthetics, and "heaven and earth-man-god" harmony; Yu was invited by the International Union of Landscape Architects and the American Association of Landscape Architects for seven times as the keynote speaker of the annual meeting. It was awarded the "Achievement Award for Returned Overseas Students" by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee and the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee, and the "First Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award for Overseas Chinese Professionals" by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.
I am an expert consultant of Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Land and Resources, National Cultural Heritage Administration, Beijing and Suzhou. Editor-in-chief of Landscape Design, editorial board of international journals such as Landscape Architecture Magazine, Urban Planning, Planner and Natural Resources Magazine.