Fan Jinshi, Dean of the Dunhuang Academy, was born in Beijing and grew up in Shanghai. In 1958, he was admitted to the History Department of Peking University. After graduating from university in 1963, she resolutely chose Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert and stayed there for nearly half a century. In college, she fell in love with her classmate Peng Jinzhang, and Peng Jinzhang went to Wuhan when she graduated. In 1967, Fan Jinshi and Peng Jinzhang got married in Wuhan. 23 years later, her husband Peng Jinzhang gave up the archeology major he founded at Wuhan University, reunited with Fan Jinshi in Dunhuang, and both devoted themselves to the protection and development of Dunhuang. For more than 40 years, Fan Jinshi has taken the lead in completing the research work on the Northern Dynasties, Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasties of the Mogao Grottoes, creating a new world for the archeology of the Dunhuang Grottoes. Since the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang were opened to the public in 1979, Fan Jinshi has keenly realized that the protection of Dunhuang requires legislation and scientific planning. With her participation and promotion, the "Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Protection Regulations" and the "Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Protection Master Plan" were successively introduced.