任志国，自号半痴，中国民间文艺家协会会员，中华文化促进会剪纸分会副会长、现代剪纸艺术研究院研究员、全国公益广告百人艺委会委员、张家口市作家协会会员、京津冀文化交流使者、政协蔚县第十四届至十五届委员会委员、蔚县剪纸协会常务副会长、蔚县民间文艺版权保护与促进协会常务副会长、蔚县非遗传承培训基地副主任。国家级非遗项目《蔚县剪纸》、《蔚县任氏镂空泥塑工艺》市级代表性传承人。
几十年来，相继在“人民日报、光明日报、环球时报”等全国各级报刊发表作品千余幅，出版有《生肖百图》一书，主编有《中国蔚县剪纸戏曲人物图典》、《中国蔚县剪纸传统题材图典》，其中《中国蔚县剪纸戏曲人物图典》一书获第十四届河北省文艺振兴奖，十余幅作品被中国农业博物馆、中国大运河博物馆、中国妇女儿童博物馆和中国国家博物馆等多家单位收藏。参予全国集体创作《大运河百米长卷》入选吉尼斯世界纪录。
2005年、2008年两次荣获张家口市委、市政府设立的文艺繁荣奖，多次应邀为湖南工艺美术学院、天津美术学院等开设的“中国非物质文化遗产传承人群研修研习班”进行授课及担任全国部分剪纸大展特邀嘉宾和评委。
2013年荣获《中华剪纸》年度评选“中华剪纸创作成就奖”。同年，二十余幅作品被中央文明办选用为公益广告作品，并在全国各地多种媒体上以不同形式展播，
2020年，剪纸作品“打树花”被国家高中教科书美术分册选用。
2021年11月4日，在央视电影6频道“非遗焕新夜”与蔚县剪纸守护人张雪迎共同展示了被誉为中国非遗“十大焕新”作品《猫》。
2022年冬奥会开幕式与闭幕式上，任志国七幅原创作品被选用在儿童鸽和标兵等服饰上。个人辞条被《中国民间文艺家大辞典》和《中国民间艺术名家》等多部辞书收录。
Ren Zhiguo,self-styled Ban Chi(Half an Enthusiast), is a member of the China Folk Literature and Art Association. He also holds the following positions: Vice Chairman of the Paper-cutting Branch of the Chinese Culture Promotion Society, Research Fellow of the Modern Paper-cutting Art Research Institute, Member of the National Committee of One Hundred Artists for Public Service Advertisements, Member of the Zhangjiakou Writers Association, Cultural Exchange Envoy for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, Member of the 14th and 15th Weixian County Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Executive Vice Chairman of the Weixian Paper-cutting Association, Executive Vice Chairman of the Weixian Association for the Copyright Protection and Promotion of Folk Literature and Art, and Deputy Director of the Weixian Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance and Training Base.
He is a municipal-level representative inheritor of two national-level Intangible Cultural Heritage items: Weixian Paper-cutting and Weixian Ren-family Hollow Clay Sculpture Craft.
Over the past several decades, more than a thousand pieces of his works have been published in newspapers and periodicals at all national and local levels, including People’s Daily, Guangming Daily and Global Times. He authored the book One Hundred Chinese Zodiac Illustrations, and served as chief editor for Classical Opera Figure Treasury of Chinese Weixian Paper-cuts and Traditional Theme Treasury of Chinese Weixian Paper-cuts. Among them, Classical Opera Figure Treasury of Chinese Weixian Paper-cuts won the 14th Hebei Provincial Literature and Art Revitalization Award. More than ten of his works have been permanently collected by numerous institutions such as the China Agricultural Museum, the Grand Canal Museum of China, the China Women and Children's Museum and the National Museum of China. He took part in the national collective creation of the Hundred-Meter Grand Canal Scroll, which was certified a Guinness World Record.
He was awarded the Literary and Art Prosperity Prize established by the Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal People’s Government twice, in 2005 and 2008. He has been invited on many occasions to deliver lectures for the Training Programs for Inheritors of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage run by institutions including Hunan University of Arts and Design and Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. He has also acted as a specially invited guest and judge for several national major paper-cutting exhibitions.
In 2013, he received the Chinese Paper-cut Creation Achievement Award in the annual selection organized by Chinese Paper-cutting magazine. In the same year, over twenty of his works were selected by the Central Civilization Office as public service advertisement materials, displayed and broadcast in diverse forms via various media outlets nationwide.
In 2020, his paper-cut work Tree Sparkle Performance was included in the fine arts volume of national senior high school textbooks.
On November 4, 2021, he appeared on the special program "New Glow of Intangible Cultural Heritage" broadcast by CCTV-6 (the Movie Channel). Together with Zhang Xueying, guardian of Weixian Paper-cutting, he presented his work Cat, honored as one of the "Top Ten Revitalized Intangible Cultural Heritage Works of China".
At the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, seven original works by Ren Zhiguo were featured on costumes for child performers holding doves, honor guards and other performers. His personal biography entries have been compiled into multiple reference books including Dictionary of Chinese Folk Literature and Artists and Famous Masters of Chinese Folk Art.（注：来自智能翻译）
