Xue Yongnian, a native of Beijing, was born in November 1941. He is a CPC member, Dean of the Graduate Department and Professor and tutor of Ph.D. students of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, a member of the National Commission for Cultural Relics Identification and Vice President of Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the CCICH. He was engaged as a researcher of the CCICH in November 2007.