Qi Baishi served as honorary professor of the National Peking Art College, honorary president of the Peking Art Writers Association, honorary professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, research librarian of the Central Museum of Literature and History, director of the Chinese People's Association for Foreign Culture, and honorary academy of the Chinese Academy of Painting. Chairman of the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association and Chairman of the National Artists Association; attended the National Congress of Literary and Art Workers of China twice in July 1949 and September 1953, and was continuously elected as a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles; elected to the first session in August 1954 Representative of the National People's Congress; had a close friendship with Chairman Mao Zedong and received interviews; in January 1953, the Ministry of Culture awarded him a certificate of honor and the title of "People's Artist"; in December 1955, the German Democratic Republic and the Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded him the Correspondence Academician's certificate of honor; in April 1956, the World Peace Council awarded him the 1955 International Peace Prize, and an award ceremony was held in September; in 1963, he was elected as a world cultural celebrity by the World Peace Council.