Li Zuixiong

Li Zuixiong (November 1944–July 2019) was member of the Communist Party of China and a member of China Association for Promoting Democracy. Li enrolled at the School of Chemistry of Northwest Normal University in September 1960.

He received his doctorate in science for conservation from Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan in 1991, becoming China's first doctorate in cultural relics conservation science.

Li began working in Gansu Provincial Museum in October 1964, engaged in research on sandstone grottoes weathering and anti-weathering reinforcement as well as protection and repairs of bronze ware, woodware, silk and other cultural relics. In January 1985, Li was transferred to Dunhuang Academy to take part in research on ancient murals and earthen ruin protection.

Li was a pioneer and founder of stone cultural relics anti-weathering and earthen ruin protection in Northwest China, and an explorer of scientific protection of ancient murals.

During his 55 years career in cultural relics protection, Li was in the forefront of cultural relics protection in China and once led Dunhuang Academy's protection teams to undertake more than 40 provincial or ministerial scientific research programs in ancient murals, grotto temples, and earthen ruins protection.