Yong-Chen Ning studied at the Engineering-Physics Department of the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China where after his graduation he worked as a faculty member. From 1971 to 1978 he researched on structural identification of organic compounds at the Institute of Chemical Engineering in Shenyang. Between 1981 an 1984 Yong-Chen Ning participated in researches in the NMR, MS, X-ray diffraction an alkaloid laboratories of the Institute of Chemistry of Natural Substances in Paris. Since 1993 he is a full professor at the Tsinghua University. Yong-Chen Ning's books won several awards, e.g. the price for excellent teaching materials, and belong to the standard repertoire of chinese students.