In commemoration of Prof. Dayu Zhang, the pioneer of the Chinese catalysis science and the founder of DICP, ‘Zhang Dayu Lectureship’ was founded in 2006, the centennial year of Prof. Zhang. The purpose of this lectureship is to recall Prof. Zhang’s greatest virtue, rigorous scholarship, and his tremendous contribution to Chinese chemistry and chemical engineering, as well as the development of DICP. Zhang Dayu Lectureship is the most prestigious lectureship at DICP, which honors to internationally or nationally outstanding scientists and scholars with high academic reputation. The lecturers will be granted as honorary professors of DICP.