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Mr. Zhang Hong, a freelance artist and curator, is the Vice Secretary-General of the Xu Beihong Oil Painting Institute of China and the Deputy Director of the Xiamen Cultural and Art Committee of the Agricultural Workers' Party. He currently resides and works in Xiamen and Melbourne. Mr. Zhang Hong has studied successively at Xiamen University, the first cohort of the Peking University Liberal Arts Art Advanced Research Class, and the Central Institute of Socialism. He also wears multiple hats as an art collector, art appraiser, art valuer, and art broker. In his forty-year artistic career, he has not only discovered and promoted numerous well-known contemporary artists and artworks but also pioneered the securitization of artworks in China, earning widespread acclaim both domestically and internationally. Due to his outstanding achievements and professional insight in multiple artistic fields, he has held positions such as the Art Director of the Financial Channel of China Central Television (CCTV2) (2011), Academician of the Xiamen Taiwan Art Research Institute, Visiting Professor at the American Institute of Calligraphy and Painting, and Art Investment Advisor for the L Family in Australia.