In 2006, Jiuquan Luminous Cup Carving was listed among the first batch of National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China for protection. In the following year, the Ministry of Culture designated Huang Yuesu as a national representative successor of the national-level intangible cultural heritage project - "Luminous Cup Carving".
On December 28, 2016, "Jiuquan Luminous Cup" was admitted to the national geographic trademark program by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China.
