In 1982, he graduated from the Composition Department of the
Sichuan Conservatory of Music. In 1981, he established
Three Periods Theory and
Theory of Musical Dimension; In 1982, he developed
RD Composition ( Composition), the first compositional method of contemporary China; In 1993, he established the
Five Nons (Non-Western, non-Eastern, non-academic, non-folk, and non-non.); In 1995,
Sister Drum was launched, making him the first Chinese composer to have his record released worldwide. This album, together with a number of others including
Voices from the Sky, was released in more than 80 countries with a total sales volume of several million copies; In 1996, he established
SS Composition (stream of structure Composition); In 1997, he put forward
Theory of Interspace; In 1998, he became director of the Composition & Conducting Department at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2003, he composed
Images in Sound, which was humanity's first gift of primordial music to all
species of the natural world; In 2008, he produced
Ehe Chant, the first work of Preconsciousness Music in human history.{{cite news|title=He Xuntian of "Pan-Exotic" He is known for his compositions done for
Dadawa, whose breakthrough was
Sister Drum – an international
bestseller that sold more than 2 million copies. He has been collecting Tibetan music for twenty years and this has heavily influenced his compositions. == Awards ==