RONG Xinjiang finished his bachelor degree at Department of History, Peking University. While pursuing a master’s degree at Peking University, he studied at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1984-85. RONG is a Chinese historian who is a Professor at Peking University, serving as chairperson of Academic Committee of Department of History and chairperson of Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History, Peking University. He is also the Cheung Kong Scholars Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, chairperson of the Dunhuang and Turpan Institute of China.

Major academic publications include: A Study on the History of Gui Yi Jun: A Textual Research on the History of Dunhuang in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Shanghai: Shanghai Classics Publishing House, 2015; Introduction to the Study of Chinese Ancient History. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2020; Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang Studies. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2020.