Ding Cong was born in Shanghai in 1916.Ding started publishing cartoons on newspapers and magazines in 1930s. During the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45), he had toured around Hong Kong and southwestern China, working as an art editor, a stage art designer, a teacher and a painter. His cartoons had been shown in many exhibitions.From 1945 to 1947, Ding published many cartoons featuring democracy at newspapers in Shanghai. After the founding of New China in 1949, Ding worked as an editor for several pictorials. From 1957 to 1978, especially during the ``Culture Revolution'' (1966-76), Ding had lived in seclusion to avoid political turbulence. He has emerged to public sight again with his cartoons since the starting of China's economic reform and opening-up to the outside world in 1978.

Recent publications: ``Selected Cartoon Works of Ding Cong,'' ``Illustrations of Lu Xun's Novels,'' ``Ding Cong's Illustrations,'' ``Ding Cong's Paintings,'' ``Yesterday's Memory,'' ``A Hundred Paintings of Folk Art,'' ``A Hundred Paintings of New Figures of Speech,'' ``Ding Cong's Cartoons,'' (I-III) ``Old Episodes,'' (English, French and German editions) and ``New Episodes.'' (English edition)

Present post: Director of the Committee of Cartoon Art with the Chinese Artists Association.