In 2008, he was awarded the honorary title of "Asia-Pacific Handicraft Master" by world crafts council Asia-Pacific Region.
In 2009, Zhang Tonglu was awarded one of the representative inheritors of the intangible cultural heritage "Cloisonne Craft" by the state. His cloisonne handicrafts have won many awards at home and abroad. He has participated in international arts and crafts exchange activities held in Oman on behalf of China arts and crafts industry.
20 12 The "Eternal Classics of Royal Art-Zhang Tonglu's 70th Birthday Commemorative Series" jointly sponsored by the Chinese and Foreign Cultural Exchange Center of the Ministry of Culture and the China Arts and Crafts Society selected the "Top Ten Classics" of Master Zhang Tonglu in the past 54 years.
In his artistic career of more than 50 years, his works are elegant, novel and extraordinary, with colorful shapes, small but insufficient, big or small, magnificent, exquisite and beautiful, simple and elegant, or beautiful and natural, unique, ingenious and beautiful, which is called "enamel Zhang".
In the early 1980s, Master Zhang Tonglu developed the innovative technology of "Platinum Crystal Painting" and applied for a patent. A major feature of "Platinum Crystal Painting" is that it can be used to make decorative murals, screens and other handicrafts.
20 13 12 The work "Bright Future" created by master Zhang Tonglu with the technology of "platinum crystal painting" was officially released at the second annual meeting of China Arts and Crafts Collection.
Zhang Tonglu said: Most of our cloisonne works have been based on vessel shapes since ancient times, that is to say, in the past, our vessel shapes were all symmetrical, and the corresponding shapes can be represented by balance and symmetry.