Long Rui, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, was born in November 1946. He is a CPC member and Vice President of Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the CCICH. He was President of the China National Academy of Painting. He has been a member of the 10th to 12th CPPCC National Committee. He was engaged as a researcher of the CCICH in November 2007.