His artworks are displayed worldwide, and he has taught painting and calligraphy at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and South China Normal University.
The title of his thesis was included in the Index of Theory of Plastic Art of 2001 by the Center of Data from Newspapers and Magazines of Renmin University of China.
[26][30][31] French art connoisseur and collector Didier Hirsch also expressed similar views in his article An Artist as Unconventional Personality: On Hu Zhiying.
[28][27][33][34][35] Didier Hirsch believes that Hu's style does not have the characteristics of the new trends of most Western and Chinese contemporary art, but is closer to those masters who left behind historical heritage.
He interwove his paintings Angel IV and Mr. Don Quixote X with musician Eleanor Alberga's symphony The World of Dreams: Shining Gate of Morpheus, aiming to stimulate the audience's imagination by integrating visual art and music and allowing images and sounds to blend naturally.
Hu investigates the overbearing elements of Western Culture, where production and consumption become process of themselves replacing the value of the human consumer.
[40][41]Hu's art has been described as having the spirit of Chinese culture in it, yet at the same time, presenting the original state of the world with disordered space and video code.
Jia Fangzhou, a senior critic, pointed out that this may be connected with Hu Zhiying's internal needs, which shows that he has displayed a variety of styles.
[69][70] When analyzing Hu's art from the perspective of both its schema and concept, Yang Wei noted that they are not connected, and instead are almost completely separate.
[70][69] The critic Bao Dong believed that the rationality of Hu's literary and artistic conception from Kant's philosophy is worthy of further discussion.
Professor Zhao Yifan of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences mentioned in the preface of the book that On the Paramitality in Literature is an unfinished project, because it is an unseen, important, chaotic, and difficult subject, and its introduction of the Buddhist concept of "Pāramitā" into literary theory was questioned.