Huang Zhiyong holds a bachelor's degree from Northwest Light Industry University (formerly Beijing Light Industry University). He has worked in state-owned industrial enterprises and municipal media outlets. Later, he ventured into entrepreneurship, establishing asset appraisal and art companies. He has earned professional titles as an engineer, a mid-level journalist, and a certified appraiser. Huang founded the "Yunnan Oil Painting Network" and, in 2011, organized the solo exhibition The Sound of Blossoms for Ms. Qian Lingge, the wife of Ye Xuaning (son of Marshal Ye Jianying), in Kunming. Before the pandemic, he opened the "Ceramics Charm Seminar" in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. He is now the owner of Ning Qing Shi Ceramic Art Museum, Yunnan's first private museum dedicated to ancient ceramic art.

In November 2024, he was invited to join the Asian Art Association Singapore (Comprehensive).

I have been involved in art collection for nearly thirty years. In my early years, I was taught through family tradition, and later I studied under Mr. Lü Chenglong, former director of the Ceramic Department at the Palace Museum in Beijing, and Mr. Jiang Jianxin, honorary director of the Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeology Institute. During my travels in Europe and the U.S., I visited major museums and art galleries, where I was deeply distressed by the loss of China’s cultural treasures. Determined to preserve them, I dedicated all my resources to acquiring artworks. As a result, I sought out private collectors and various auction platforms, acquiring all of my collections from overseas. My primary focus has been on ceramics, and I have followed the chronological development of Chinese ceramic history in my acquisitions. These include Neolithic Majiayao painted pottery, rope-patterned ceramics from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, early celadon from the Qin and Han periods, as well as ceramics from the Western Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and even the Hongxian ceramics from the Republic of China. I have collected representative and era-defining ceramic types from every major phase in Chinese ceramic history. My collection spans the full spectrum of China’s five-thousand-year civilization, and the Ning Qing Shi Ceramic Art Museum that I founded has become a compact museum of Chinese ceramic history. Such a complete private ceramic history museum does not yet exist elsewhere in China.

The Ning Qing Shi Ceramic Art Museum operates primarily by offering lectures, including An Introduction to the History of Chinese Ceramics, How to Appreciate Official Kiln Ceramics, Cultivating Art Appreciation and Aesthetic Ability, and Aesthetic Education as a Survival Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

· Member of the China Association of Collectors
· Member of the Expert Database of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China
· Ming and Qing Dynasty Ancient Ceramic Appraiser, China Association of Collectors
· Founder of the Kunming Ning Qing Shi Ancient Ceramic Art Museum
· Founder of the "Ceramics Charm Seminar" in Hangzhou
· Holder of the professional title of engineer, mid-level journalist, and certified asset appraiser