Lai Zhigang, or Yunchan, a member of the Chinese Artists Association. He was born in Bengbu, Anhui Province in 1963, and now lives in Beijing and Shenzhen. He began to study in the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2001. In 2002, he was admitted to the master's class of the Jia Youfu Studio of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 2005, he joined the Li Xiaoke Art Studio of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts. He has won the Excellence Award of the "Second Chinese Art Golden Color Award", and has held art exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Japan, and Taiwan. In 2018, Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House published Inheritance and Development – Collection of Lai Zhigang’s Accumulated-ink Landscape Painting. His representative works include The Rise, The Way with Art, The Way of Clouds, Road Between Mountains, Spring Tide, Sage’s Domain, Mist and Clouds in Mount Huangshan, Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and so on.