Member of China Artists Association, member of China Oil Painting Society, director of Liaoning Artists Association, and chairman of the third Benxi Artists Association. He is currently the president of Benxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute, a national first-class artist, and a special painter of Liaoning Painting Academy. He has been engaged in oil painting for a long time, and his works are mainly landscapes. His works participated in the 6th National Art Exhibition, the 60th Anniversary Art Exhibition, the 70th Anniversary Art Exhibition and the 1st National Watercolor and Pastel Art Exhibition. His main works are oil painting "Mao Mao's Dog", "Dove's Nest" and watercolor painting "Summer". He led the exhibition of Liaodong landscape painting in China Art Museum and the exhibition hall of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, held exhibitions in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang and other cities, and was invited to hold personal oil painting exhibitions in Thailand, Japan, France, Singapore and Indonesia. He has published Selected Oil Paintings of Ding Tao, Selected Oil Paintings of Ding Tao, Selected Oil Paintings of Ding Tao and Rebecca, and has written an Introduction to Oil Paintings. His works have been published in professional magazines such as Art, Gallery, Watercolor Art and Famous Still Life. Among them, the oil painting "Mao Mao Dog" was written by Mr. Cai Ruohong, an art theorist, and published in Art magazine, which was highly praised. There are many reports about his own creation and artistic experience in provinces and cities, CCTV, reportage and news media, and sometimes literary works and artistic criticism articles appear in newspapers and periodicals.