Professor MAO Yan won the 2021 Outstanding Teacher Award of HBUE on Teachers' Day. The university-level Teaching Masters Award is held every two years to reward teachers with noble ethics, rigorous scholarship, exemplary behavior, long-term persistence in the front line of teaching, excellent teaching results, and remarkable achievements in teaching reform and construction. Prof. Yan MAO is the first teacher of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management to be awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award.