Liao Changyong was born in Pidu District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province on October 25th, 1968. In 1995, he graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music with a master's degree. Shanghai Conservatory of Music is one of the nine independent conservatories in China, and it is also a national first-class and world-class discipline construction university. The dean of Shanghai Conservatory of Music belongs to the bureau level.