Zheng Xiaonong is a writer and screenwriter. He went to the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps in 1969, and returned to Beijing due to illness in 1974. He worked as a fitter at the Beijing Huahua Shirt Factory, a professional creator of the Chongwen District Cultural Center, a member of the District CPPCC, and the vice chairman of the District Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He began to publish literary works in 1983, joined the Beijing Writers Association in 1985, and joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1991.