The honorary title of Doctor of the Southern Federal University has been awarded to outstanding foreign writers, scientists, public figures and statesmen over the years. Among them, for example, Norwegian archaeologist, traveler and writer Thor Heyerdahl, French-Belgian ethnologist, sociologist, ethnographer, philosopher and cultural critic, who created his own scientific field in ethnology — structural anthropology and incest theory, researcher of kinship systems, mythology and folklore Claude Levi-Strauss.

The title of Professor Ming Hung Wong was awarded in recognition of his significant contribution to the development of the sections of soil science, ecology and biogeochemistry related to monitoring and restoration of polluted ecosystems, and for long-term cooperation with the university.

At the Southern Federal University, Professor Wong is a visiting scientist, head of the Megagrant "Biorestination of Polluted soil ecosystems", which aims to identify sources of soil pollution with pollutants, analyze their behavior and assess risks to the environment and human health. In addition, under the leadership of Ming Hung Wong, the laboratory "Soil Health" was created on the basis of the Academy of Biology and Biotechnology of the Southern Federal University, which employs more than 70% of young employees. Its key task is to develop and test technologies for bioremediation of polluted soil ecosystems within the framework of the strategic project "Soil Resource Management and Agro–climatology" of the strategic academic leadership program "Priority 2030" (National Project "Science and Universities").

"I am extremely pleased with this award in recognition of my participation in the project. It is very important for scientists to receive recognition for their work. I enjoyed working with the team led by Tatiana Minkina, Svetlana Sushkova, Saglara Mandzhieva, Vishnu Dayal Rajput and all the dedicated participants. I am sincerely grateful to the Russian government for its financial support. Their trust in our team underlines the importance of the project within the framework of the Megagrant. Despite the fact that our three-year project is coming to an end, we will continue to cooperate. I intend to continue to connect our team with international teams for possible joint projects," said Ming Hung Wong.

Professor Ming Hung Wong – Advisor (Environmental Sciences) Hong Kong University of Education, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of the Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen), Honorary Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal "Environmental geochemistry and health" (Springer Nature, 1Q). According to the list compiled by Stanford University in 2020 and 2021, Professor Wong is among the 2% of the best scientists in the world and ranks 6th (out of 66,925 scientists) in terms of citations in the world in the field of environmental sciences.

Throughout his academic career, Professor Wong has led and participated in more than 50 projects. Under his leadership, 39 people received a PhD degree. The list of publications in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science has more than 1,000 scientific papers that have been cited more than 50,000 times. According to the Scopus database, the scientist's Hirsch index is 116, and according to the Web of Science database it is 104.

He was awarded the Milton Gordon Prize for the best research in the field of Phytoremediation (International Society of Phytotechnologies) in 2016, was awarded the silver medal of the International Exhibition of Inventions (Geneva) in 2019,  and is also the owner of many other equally prestigious prizes and awards.