Lin Jiliang is a Performer of the Ruan instrument, a music educator, a PhD of Music from Southwest International University (USA) and is now serving as a Professor of Folk Music at the Dalian Art College. He concurrently serves as a Guest Professor at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, a Visiting Professor at the Singapore Raffles Music College, and the Director of the Music Composition Office of the Dalian Song and Dance Ensemble. He is a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, Executive Director of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society, Honorary President of the Ruan Major Council of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society, and Honorary President of Liaoning Nationalities Orchestra Society, President of the Ruan Major Council of Liaoning Nationalities Orchestra Society. He is one of the main founders of the Ruan Major Council. His huge contribution to the development of the Ruan major is reflected by: first, that he has created many Ruan solos such as Prairie Emotions, and created history by ending  the idea that the Ruan could only serve as an accompanying instrument. Second, he has greatly enriched Ruan playing skills and pioneered the new field of the Ruan solo performance. Third, he has trained many Ruan solo performers and so continued the history of the Ruan solo performance. In April 1983, the People’s Music Publishing House published one of his Ruan solos Song of Praise and Blooming Phoenix Flowers, and they were the first Ruan solos published in China since the founding of new China. Later, the People’s Music Publishing House again invited him to rearrange 16 Ruan tunes, and compile them into The First and Second Collections of Ruan Tunes. The Prairie Emotion created by him was designated as an entry (item) for international competitions for Chinese instruments, and was honorably awarded the 1982 “Cultural and Art Creation Prize” of Liaoning Provincial Government; his Touring Mount Tai was honorably awarded the second prize (the first prize without a winner) in the competition for Liaoning Province’s ethnic music works in 1988. In 1994, Dalian Audio and Video Publishing House published the “Special Collection of Lin Jiliang’s Works” cassettes titled Pine Tree in Winter and the book of Lin Jiliang’s Ruan Plucking Methods. In April 1984, he created the academic report “Skills and their Application” at the China National Conservatory of Music, and in August of that year, the academic report “Image and Image-based Teaching” at the Xi’an Conservatory of Music. In June 1988, the provincial and municipal musicians’ associations, the Dalian Municipal Bureau of Culture, and the Dalian Song and Dance Ensemble together organized the “Ancient Rhythms with Elegant Songs” concert that he composed. On 21 May 1995, he was invited by the Cultural Institute of Macao to Macao for cultural exchange. In December 1995, the Banhu fiddle solo that he wrote (performed by Zhou Xuemei) won the “Galaxy Award” silver medal by the Ministry of Culture. In 2000, Dalian Publishing House published A Selection of Lin Jiliang’s Ruan Tunes, in which 37 Ruan tunes plus 33 ancient poetic songs were published together. Later the selection was republished many times and increased to 46 Ruan tunes. In August 2002, he was engaged by the national Ministry of Culture as a judge at the First Competition for Ethnic Instruments of the Chinese Teenage Arts Contest and served as a judge at the National Chinese Music Competition in Singapore in the same year. His achievements have been included in the Who’s Who of Chinese Musicians and other dictionaries.