Guo Yongyan, also known as Ziyu, was born in Suizhou, Hubei in November 1961. He is a member of the Ninth and Tenth Committees of the China Literature and Art Publishing House, a director of the China Calligraphers Association, a vice president of the Li Keran Painting Academy, a researcher at the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Art Research Institute of the Calligraphy and Painting Channel, the chairman of the China Financial Calligraphers Association, the vice chairman of the China Workers Calligraphers Association, an expert advisor to the China Workers Poetry Association, the executive vice chairman of the Wild Grass Poetry Society of the China Couplet Society, the founding secretary-general of the China Art Appreciation and Finance Summit Forum, the chairman of the Presidium of the Financial Painting Academy, and the president of the Beijing Jinjie Calligraphy and Painting Academy.