Ge Lidao, member of China Music Association, consultant of Fujian Music Association. In the early days of liberation, he was admitted to East China Military and Political University, and successively served as performer, conductor, composer and art director in the Art Troupe of the Military Academy, the Art Troupe of the Air Defense Force, and the Fuzhou Military Region Frontier Song and Dance Troupe. In 1959, he went to the Central Conservatory of Music to study composition theory, and later studied polyphony with Professor Chen Mingzhi of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The main works include: Suona and Band "She Qing", Pipa Solo "She Nationality Dance", Orchestral Ensemble "Taiwan Suite"; songs "Beautiful Southern Fujian", "It's Raining Now Captain Laughs", "I'm Wearing New Military Uniforms", etc. ; Dance music "Salt", "Hunting", "Fighting" and so on. Eight works were staged in more than 30 countries including Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan and Russia. The chorus "My Family Lives by the Minjiang River" was brought to Vienna's Musikverein last year to perform.
For more than 50 years, he has created more than 1,000 pieces of various musical works. The main works are: suona and band "Social Celebration", suona solo "Celebrating the Harvest by the Kowloon River", all of which are national and military award-winning works, all included in the "Selected Instrumental Music Works for the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", which were selected by many music schools across the country. Teaching materials for performance and composition. The work "My Family Lives by the Minjiang River" won the title of "Fuzhou City Song" in the national collection of Fuzhou City Songs, and was selected for broadcast in the "Same Song" column of CCTV. In addition, also wrote a lot of movies, TV series, TV films, radio drama music. Eight works were staged in more than 20 countries and regions including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Russia, Romania, and Japan. In the early 1980s, the Central People's Broadcasting Station broadcasted a one-hour special program on characters: "Love Songs Haunting in the South: Introducing Ge Lidao, the Composer of the Army and His Works". "Songs of the People's Liberation Army" published a column article "Three Questions of Composer Ge Lidao", and local newspapers, radio stations and TV stations also conducted exclusive interviews and reports.
In the army has six times of meritorious service, many awards. In 1997 and 2000, he won the "Gao Cai Yali" Music Medal twice. In 1985 and 2004, he was elected as the representative of the National Member Congress of the Chinese Musicians Association. From 1959 to 1977, he was received many times by Party and state leaders Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping and Ye Jianying and took group photos.