At 3 pm on February 9, 2021, US Eastern Time (3 am on February 10, 2021, BJ time), the American Academy of Engineering officially announced the 2021 academician election results. Xiaobing FU, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Research Center of Wound Repair and Tissue Regeneration of the Medical Innovation Research Division of CPLAGH, was elected as foreign academician of the American Academy of Engineering.

This is another honor that Academician FU won after being elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2009, as foreign academician of the French Academy of Medical Sciences in 2018, and as Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine and Biological Engineering in 2020.