Professor Ron Chen Guanrong was conferred an Honorary Doctorate Degree (Doctoris Honoris Causa) by the University of Le Havre, Normandy, France on 26 June 2014, for his significant contributions in scientific research on complexity and chaos theories as well as complex networks. This is the second of such prestigious awards Professor Chen had received, while the first one was conferred by the Saint Petersburg State University, Russia in 2011.