Education
As a child he was interested in art. Later on he went and got a formal art education in 1978 at Beijing Industrial Arts College. His instructor here was specialized in the Soviet style of sculpture that he primarily what he studied during this time. Then he went to study at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1983 where he studied in the Sculpture Department.It wasn’t until after he graduated from the art schools that he then started to get into modern sculptors.
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