About President Dong Rongcan

~ President's message ~

Working together

Let's create a better tomorrow

"In response to the challenges of today's Sino-US relations, the significance of the existence of the US-China Cultural and Art Exchange Association is to enhance mutual understanding between the two peoples through cultural and educational exchanges and to inspire the two peoples' desire for friendship. To this end, our efforts and practical actions should be more than what we say.

The association was founded in 1992 and has come a long way over the past 30 years. It is like a baby entering his thirties. Looking back, we have experienced many ups and downs, many hardships, many sweats and many successes along the way. Let us accept the challenges and tests under the new situation, work together, and create a better tomorrow with the friendship between the Chinese and American people.

* Listen:Dong Rongcan, "Self-introduction"

Piano: Dong Rongcan



Narrator: Siqi (senior announcer and program host)

**Interview Reading:The Mission

Author: Yin Baoguo



——A senior writer, social commentator and critic in Shanghai. He has written a large number of essay collections, interviews and other works, which have been published in China and the United States.

Dong Rongcan graduated from the Piano Department and Composition Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and was selected as a composer for the Shanghai Orchestra.

In 1985, he embarked on a rough life in the United States, traveling across the ocean with only 40 US dollars. After a "complete transformation", he obtained a master's degree in composition and a doctorate in art education; he won the first prize in the Mark Brunswick Young Composition Competition in New York twice (1990, 1991); and held a solo concert at Carnegie Hall (1992) and a "Romantic Piano" concert at Carnegie Hall (2000).

Charity is his original intention. On the first anniversary of the 5.12 earthquake in 2009, he organized a concert with more than 100 people in the disaster area, and was hailed as a "people's musician"; the People's Daily (Overseas Edition) (2009.6.2) reported extensively: "Dong Rongcan - A Chinese American with a Chinese heart". In 2005, he donated the "Shanghai Pudong New Area Xiuying Nursing Home" in the name of his mother.

On December 1, 2015, World Red Ribbon Day, he fully funded the production of the musical "Love and Life" for a charity performance at the Shanghai Daning Theater.

Over the years, Mr. Dong has led the US-China Cultural and Art Exchange Association to complete hundreds of projects and passionately promoted cultural exchanges between the East and the West.