Fang Qin, born in October 1969, from Wuhan, Hubei Province, doctor of history, researcher. Bachelor of Archaeology from Peking University, Doctor of History from Wuhan University, part-time doctoral tutor of Wuhan University. He is currently the director of the Hubei Provincial Museum and the director of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.

Graduated from Peking University in 1991. In 2018, he graduated from Wuhan University with a Ph.D.

In May 2013, he served as director of Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and director of Hubei Provincial Museum.

He presided over the excavation of the Guojiamiao cemetery and the Sujialong cemetery, and obtained the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2015 and the six new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2017 respectively.

He is the author of "History and Culture of Zeng State - From "Left and Right Civil and Military" to "Left and Right Chu King", and constructs the little-known history of Zeng State based on archaeological data.

Editor-in-chief of "Zengguo Archaeological Discovery and Research", "Mumu Zenghou - Zengguo Cemetery in Guojiamiao, Zaoyang", "Jinancheng Archaeological Discovery", "Ritual and Music China - Shang and Zhou Bronze Ware in Hubei Provincial Museum", Sanmiao and Nantu - Important Archaeological Harvests during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" Period of Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology" and many other academic works.

Member of the expert group and sub-project host of the Yejiashan Zengguo Cemetery Archaeological Research Expert Group, a major national scientific research project.

Presided over the key projects of the National Social Science Fund "Zaoyang Guojiamiao Cemetery Excavation Report (2014-2016)", "Archaeological China - Major Research Project of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage" "Research on the Civilization Process in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River", and the National Social Science Fund Major Project He is a member of the research group of the project "Organization and Research of Metallurgical Handicraft Archaeological Data in the Central Plains and Frontier Areas in the Pre-Qin Period", and has published dozens of academic articles such as "Archaeological Observations on the History of Zeng Kingdom".