Guo Yizong, a native of Weifang, Shandong Province, was born in February 1940. He is a member of the CPC, a professor and tutor of Ph.D. students at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association and Dean of the Chinese Artistic Creation School of the Chinese National Academy of Arts. He was a member of the 8th and 9th CPPCC National Committee. He was engaged as a researcher of the CCICH in November 2007.