National first-class writer, male, born in Nanjing in February, 1936, from Xuyi, Jiangsu. ** * party member. College degree. Member of the Presidium of Chinese Writers Association, member of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, member of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and concurrently chairman of Ningxia Huaxia Western Film and Television City Company.

Zhang Xianliang started his literary creation when he was in junior high school in 1950s. 1955 came to Ningxia as a culture teacher. 1957 during the anti-rightist movement, he was labeled as a "rightist" because he published a poem "Song of the Big Wind" in Yanhe magazine. He has been working in West Lake Farm in Helan County and Nanliang Farm in Yinchuan suburb for more than 20 years. /kloc-0 was rehabilitated and rewritten at the end of 979, and later became the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee. Representative works include: the novella Soul and Meat, Xing Laohan and Dogs and Stories, Sholbrak, First Kiss, etc. Novellas such as Descendants of the River, Dragon Seed, Love Story in Prison, No Awakening, Good Morning Friends, Romantic Black Cannon, Greening Trees, etc. The novels Men, Half Men and Half Women, Habitual Death, My Bodhi Tree and China are literary and political essays. Prose collections include Flying over Europe, Marginal Prose, Novel Supplement and Pursuit of Wisdom. He won the National Novel Award for three times and the National Literature Periodical Award for many times, and was awarded the title of "Intellectual with Special Contribution" by the state and Ningxia Autonomous Region. Nine novels have been put on the screen, and their works have been translated into 27 languages and distributed all over the world, which has a wide international influence. At the beginning of 1993, as the main representative of intellectuals "going to sea", he founded China Western Film and Television. Nowadays, Zhenbeibao Western Studios, a subsidiary of Huaxia Western Studios Company, has become an important cultural landscape and tourist attraction in Nanjing, and is known as "a must in China". The success of Huaxia West Film and Television City proves the importance of exerting human wisdom and management in the market economy society, and provides a train of thought for the backward northwest region to develop its economy.

Zhang Xianliang's novels have been put on TV, such as Spirit and Meat (Shepherd), Dragon Seed, Romantic Black Gun (black cannon incident), Manliness, The Old Man and the Dog, Sholbrak, Descendants of the River, Window Facing the Street and We Are the World.