Du Mingxin (1927～) Chinese composer. A native of Qianjiang, Hubei Province. In 1939, he was selected from the Second Nursery School for Soldier Children in Yongchuan County, Sichuan to study music at Taoxingzhi Yucai School in Chongqing, where he studied under musicians such as He Luting and Ren Hong. In 1941, he composed his first song "Let's See Who Gets More Credit". After the school moved to Shanghai, he studied piano under Professor Fan Jisen, Russian musician Lazarev, and Professor Wu Leyi. In 1949, he went to Beijing to join the People's Art Troupe. After the establishment of the Central Conservatory of Music, he was hired as a sight-singing, ear-training and piano teacher. In 1954, he was selected by the state and sent to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music to study composition with the famous Soviet composer Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki. He returned to China in 1958 and continued to teach in the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 1969, he was transferred to the China Dance Drama Troupe and served as the head of the music section of the creative section. In 1976, he was transferred back to the Central Conservatory of Music as director and professor of the composition department. He is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an executive director of the Chinese Musicians Association. Du Mingxin has created a lot of music, especially his instrumental works. His famous Chinese dance drama "The Fish Mermaid" (cooperated with Wu Zuqiang) and Chinese ballet "Red Detachment of Women" (collective creation) have made successful attempts to maintain and develop the characteristics of national music and absorb the music creation of foreign dance dramas, and were both selected into the " A 20th-century Chinese music classic, the main music fragments were adapted into the concert repertoire. The Violin Concerto No. 1 was performed at the Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., and was selected as the final piece of the first National Violin Competition in China in 1987. The repertoire includes the symphonic music and painting "South China Sea of ??the Motherland", the symphonic fantasy "Luo Shen", "Youth Symphony", "Piano Concerto No. 1", "Festival Overture", ballet "Xuanfeng", "1997 Overture", etc. He held a solo concert in Hong Kong in the early 1990s and composed music for more than ten films including "The Wilderness", "Sorrow" and "Li Siguang".