About the President

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.

  • "People's Musician" -- (Shanghai Conservatory of Music official website 2009.5.8)
  • Dong Rongcan: A Chinese American with a Chinese heart -- (People's Daily Overseas Edition 2009.6.2)
  • "Dong Rongcan is a pianist, composer, artist, producer, social activist, philanthropist, and ambassador of cultural exchange between the United States and China" -- (Selected fromSanmenxia TV News Broadcast2013.5.10)

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 alone with 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 Youth Composition Competition in New York twice (1990, 1991); Carnegie Hall's personal concert (1992), Carnegie Hall's "Romantic Piano" concert (2000).


Charity is his original intention. On the first anniversary of May 12, 2009, he organized a concert of works with more than 100 participants in the disaster area, and was hailed as a "people's musician"; "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, the world "Red Ribbon Day", he produced the musical "Love and Life" at a charity performance at 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.


In the busy world, he never forgets his original intention as an artist and has created more than 100 songs with beautiful and touching melodies, which he recorded as 9 albums at his own expense; he has also created and played hundreds of romantic and moving piano pieces. Only with a kind and honest love can a musician write such pure and beautiful songs.


For more information, you can search "Dong Rongcan" on WeChat, Baidu or Google, or visit the website of Dong Rongcan Music Studio https://www.dannydongsong.com/

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