Li Yuqun, male, Han ethnicity, was born in September 1957 in Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province. He is a Second-Grade Research Fellow, doctoral supervisor, a recipient of the Special Allowance issued by the State Council, and an expert under the "Summit Strategy" of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 1987 and 1993, he graduated from the Department of Archaeology at Peking University under the guidance of Professor Su Bai, earning a Master's degree and a Doctoral degree in History. He began working at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1996 and retired at the end of 2017. 

He previously served as Deputy Director of the Han-Tang Archaeology Division, Director of the Frontier Ethnicities and Religious Archaeology Division, member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Archaeology, editorial board member of the journals Archaeology and Acta Archaeologica Sinica, Deputy Director of the Grottoes Professional Committee of the Chinese Association for the Protection of Monuments and Sites, and adjunct professor at the Center for Chinese Archaeology of Peking University. He has been a visiting scholar at the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage of South Korea and Kyoto University in Japan. He also served as Executive Deputy Director of the Religious Archaeology Professional Committee of the Archaeological Society of China, Deputy Director of the Three Kingdoms to Tang Dynasty Professional Committee of the Archaeological Society of China, a correspondence review expert for the National Social Science Fund, and a member of the editorial board of the monthly journal Cultural Relics. 

His monograph Research on Late Northern Dynasties Grotto Temples received the Third Prize of the 7th Outstanding Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2013). The large-scale archaeological report Yungang Grottoes, a 20-volume work compiled and edited by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University, won the 2016 National Outstanding Cultural Heritage Book Award.

He is primarily engaged in archaeological excavation and research in Buddhist archaeology and Han-Tang archaeology. He has directed archaeological excavations at sites including the East Gate of the Tang-Song City in Yangzhou, the archaeological survey and excavation of the Chau Say Tevoda Temple at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Baitasi Temple site in Wuwei, Gansu, the Tongzisi Temple site in Taiyuan, the Buddhist temple site of Kaihua Temple on Mengshan Mountain in Taiyuan, and the Tuyugou Grottoes site in Shanshan, Turpan, Xinjiang. 

Among these, the archaeological excavation of the Tuyugou Grottoes site was recognized as one of China’s Top Ten Archaeological New Discoveries of 2011. He is currently leading the major historical research project "Compilation and Research of the Archaeological Excavation Report of the Tuyugou Grottoes in Shanshan, Xinjiang" under the National Social Science Fund's Special Project for Major Historical Issues of the Chinese Academy of History. His work Excavation of the Baitasi Temple Site in Wuwei, Gansu in 1999 received the Third Prize of the Ninth Outstanding Social Science Achievement Award of Gansu Province in 2004.

•Li Yuqun (First Author). Tianlongshan Grottoes. Science Press, 2003.

•Li Yuqun (Sole Author). Research on Grotto Temples in the Late Northern Dynasties. Cultural Relics Press, 2003.

•Li Yuqun (Sole Author). Chinese Grotto Temples. Science Press, 2022.

•Li Yuqun. "A STUDY OF CAVE-TEMPLES AND ENGRAVED SUTRAS AROUND THE ANCIENT CAPITAL YE". Acta Archaeologica Sinica, No. 4, 1997.

•Li Yuqun. "Several Issues Concerning the Xiaonanhai Grottoes in Anyang". Yanjing Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series No. 6, 1999.

•Li Yuqun. "Yangzhou City During the Sui and Tang Dynasties". Archaeology, No. 3, 2003.

•Li Yuqun. "New Discoveries at the Tuyugou Grottoes in Turpan: Also on the Composition of Buddhism in Gaochang During the 5th Century", in Shih Shou-ch'ien (ed.). Transformations Between the Han-Jin and Tang-Song Periods in Art History. Taipei: Stone Publishing Co., Ltd., 2014.

•Li Yuqun. "A Symbolic Dharma Hall: The Stone Chamber with Buddhist Murals of the Northern Wei Dynasty in Tongjiawan, Datong, Shanxi". Cultural Relics, No. 1, 2022.

•Li Yuqun. "A Study of a Niche Sculpture Dating from the Southern Dynasty at the Thousand-Buddha Rock in Xinchang,Zhejiang". Cultural Relics, No. 2, 2021.

•Li Yuqun. "EXCAVATION REPORT ON THE CHAU SAY TEMPLE IN ANGKOR THOM". Acta Archaeologica Sinica, No. 2, 2003.