He has won 2 second prizes of national technological invention award and 4 first prizes of military scientific and technological progress award. He applied for 9 invention patents, granted 6 patents, published 2 books, published more than 40 academic papers and wrote more than 30 national defense science and technology reports. In 2005, he won the Practical Engineering Award of China Qiushi Outstanding Youth. In 2007, he won the ho leung ho lee foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award. In 2008, he was selected as a national candidate for the 100 million talents project in the new century ... and won the second class merit four times.

He was rated as a special "scientific research hero" by the Naval Equipment Research Institute, and was rated as a model of meritorious service by Jason Wu, a young naval officer at the grass-roots level, and an outstanding party member model in the navy. Because of Ma Cheng's outstanding achievements in scientific research, he was received by Hu Jintao and other party and state leaders for many times.