We are delighted to announce that Acta Mechanica Sinica, published by Springer, and sponsored by the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM) was listed in “2017 The Highest International Impact Academic Journal of China” (Top 5%). The result was released in the Annual Report for International Citation of Chinese Academic Journals 2017, a project by the China’s Research Center for Scientific Literature Evaluation and Measuring, China Academic Journals Electronic Publishing House, and Tsinghua University Library. Top 5% (175 kinds of journals in science, technology and medicine and 60 kinds of journals in humanities and social sciences) were awarded “2017 Highest International Impact Academic Journal of China”.