Nantong has a gathering of talents from past dynasties, and famous people have emerged in large numbers. Writers such as Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Mi Fu, Wen Tianxiang, and Mao Pijiang left many immortal poems and anecdotes in Nantong. Shen Shou, a modern Suzhou embroidery master, also has many connections with Nantong. Historical celebrities such as Lu Dai, a famous minister of the Three Kingdoms, Chen Shigong, a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty, Li Fangying, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, and Zhang Jian, the number one scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, are all from Nantong. Chen Bingde, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Ge Honglin, deputy secretary of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and mayor, contemporary performing artist Zhao Dan, Chinese masters Wei Jiangong, Han Guopan, traditional Chinese painting master Wang Geyi, snake medicine expert Ji Desheng, and mathematician Yang Le, etc. More than 20 people Two academicians of the two academies also came from Nantong. The sports industry has attracted much attention and has provided the country with seven Olympic champions including Lin Li, Ge Fei, Huang Xu, Li Ju, Chen Qi, Chen Ruolin, and Zhong Man, as well as Zhang Jieyun, Wu Jianqiu, Yin Qin, Zhao Jianhua, Ji Lei, Hu Xin, and Lu Bin, Zhao Tingting and other famous sports players were hailed as the "cradle of world champions" by former National Sports Commission Director Wu Shaozu.