an Jinshi was born in Beijing in 1938.She graduated from Peking University in 1963
with a bachelor's degree in archeology.After graduation,she was appointed to work at the Dunhuang Academy by Chang Shuhong,the academy's first president.Despite her family's disapproval,Fan headed off to the Gobi Desert.Throughout the years,her life has become inseparable from Dunhuang art.Fan was appointed the academy's third presideThis is the award speech presented to Fan Jinshi by the host Bai Yansong at the award ceremony for the People Who Moved China .
For 57 years, Fan Jinshi has tended the Dunhuang Grottoes as if her life depended on it. She devoted herself to the archaeological research of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. She completed the staging of the Grottoes in the Northern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, and the early and middle Tang Dynasty. Since the