1999 won the second prize of China Cup China Art Exhibition, the Excellence Award of China Art Celebrity Exhibition, and 1998 won the second prize of Military Art Exhibition.
He held solo exhibitions and joint exhibitions in China for many times, and1held a solo exhibition in Britain at the invitation of the Royal Art Society in June, 1998.
Biographies and works have been included in Who's Who of Modern Artists in China, Dictionary of Famous Contemporary Artists in China and Collection of Works of Mo Bao, a Contemporary Painter in China. Collection of Contemporary Famous Painters in China, Collection of 100 Famous Painters in Shaanxi and Collection of Military Painters;
He has published Selected Works of Military Painter Yang Zhiwei, Selected Works of Yang Zhiwei and Yang Zhiwei's Painting Collection.
Introduced and commented by many newspapers and magazines. CCTV, Shaanxi TV, Shaanxi Satellite TV and xi TV reported Brothers of Military Painters, Yang Zhiwei, Yang Zhiwei and his Chinese paintings.