Cong Dexin, male, originally from Jin County, Liaoning Province, was born in Jilin City, Jilin Province in April 1963 and is of Han ethnicity. He is a member of the Communist Party of China. In 1985, he graduated from the Department of History at Jilin University with a bachelor’s degree in archaeology. He has served as the Director of the General Office of Scientific Research of the Institute of Archaeology, Director of the Frontier Ethnicities and Religious Archaeology Division, Director of the Frontier Archaeology Research Center, Chief Research Fellow of the "Summit Strategy" for Frontier Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Council Member of the Archaeological Society of China.

He was a member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Archaeology and a member of the Degree Committee of the Department (Institute) of Archaeology at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He also served as the Executive Deputy Director of the Professional Committee for Frontier Archaeology of the Archaeological Society of China. He is the principal investigator of the Major Project of the National Social Science Fund "Comprehensive Study of the Adunqiaolu Site and Tombs in Wenquan, Xinjiang." Additionally, he is a distinguished professor and academic leader at the School of History, Xinjiang University.

His professional expertise includes prehistoric archaeology and historical-period archaeology in Xinjiang, as well as frontier archaeology studies. After graduation, he worked successively in the Han-Tang Archaeology Division and the Prehistoric Archaeology Division of the Institute of Archaeology. He participated in the excavations and surveys of archaeological sites such as the Xinglongwa site in Aohan, Inner Mongolia, the Zhuming Gate site at Yecheng in Linzhang, Hebei, as well as sites in Shandong, Hubei, Chongqing, and other regions. Since 1986, he has worked in the Xinjiang Archaeological Team, participating in archaeological surveys in Xinjiang and the excavation and documentation of the Qunbake tombs in Luntai County and the Wumachang site in Qitai County, Xinjiang. Starting in 1992, he took part in archaeological surveys and excavations in the Three Gorges region of the Yangtze River, covering areas such as Hubei and Sichuan, and led the excavation of the Pipazhou site and tombs in Wushan County, Chongqing. In 2011, he began leading the excavation of the Adunqiaolu site and tombs in Wenquan County, Xinjiang, which was honored as one of China’s Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries of 2012 and recognized as a significant achievement of the Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2013.

From 1999 to 2003, he served as Deputy Director of the General Office of Scientific Research of the Institute of Archaeology, overseeing its operations. From 2003 to 2007, he was Deputy Director of the Frontier Ethnicities and Religious Archaeology Division. From 2007 to 2015, he served as Director of the General Office of Scientific Research, and from 2017 to 2023, he was the Director of the Frontier Ethnicities and Religious Archaeology Division.

•Cong Dexin. The Vanished Ancient City: The Mystery of the Loulan Kingdom (Monograph). Sichuan Education Press, 1996. (Awarded the Second-Class Prize (Youth Category) of the 2nd Outstanding Achievements of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1999)

•Cong Dexin. "A Study on Several Issues Concerning the Chawuhu Gou Culture in Xinjiang", in Archaeological Explorations: Proceedings of the 1996 Young and Middle-Aged Scholars' Symposium of the Institute of Archaeology. China Social Sciences Press, 1997.

•Cong Dexin et al. (Lead Author). "Excavation Report on the Pipazhou Site in Wushan", in Collected Archaeological Reports of the Chongqing Reservoir Area (Volume 1998). Science Press, 2003.

•Cong Dexin. "The Emergence and Establishment of Patriarchy: An Analysis of the Cemeteries of the Banshan, Machang and Qijia Cultures in Gansu", in Preliminary Studies in Social Archaeology. Dōjōsha, 2005. (In Japanese)

•Cong Dexin. "A Preliminary Investigation of Cemetery No.5 and Related Remains at Xiaohe in Lop Nur, Xinjiang", in Ancient Artefacts of East Asia (Volume B). Cultural Relics Press, 2006.

•Cong Dexin et al. (Lead Author). "The Adonqolo Site and Cemetery in Wenquan County, Xinjiang". Archaeology, No.7, 2013.

•Cong Dexin et al. (First Author). "Adonqolo: New Type of Bronze Age Remains in the Western Tianshan Mountains". The Western Regions Studies, No.4, 2017. (Full text reprinted in History (Journal of the Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin University of China), No.3, 2018)

•Cong Dexin et al. (First Author). " Evaluation on the Research of Prehistoric Mobile Pastoralist Archaeology among the Eurasian Steppe ". The Western Regions Studies, No.4, 2020. (Excerpted in China Social Sciences Abstracts, No.4, 2021; serialized in Xinjiang Social Sciences (Kazakh Edition), Issues 1 & 2, 2021)

•Cong Dexin. The Formation and Development of Archaeological Cultural Diversity of Bronze Age in Xinjiang". Journal of the Chinese Nation Studies, No.2, 2023. (Reprinted in History Abstracts (Renmin University of China), No.4, 2023)

•Cong Dexin. "The Mission and Responsibility of Borderland Archaeology in the New Era". Journal of Liaoning University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), No.1, 2024.