Guan Shangzhi, who founded the brand of Gliona in 1989, is an outstanding violin maker, senior instrument designer and senior (violin making) technician in Guangdong Province. He is one of the 18 craftsmen reported by Guangdong Health TV "Technology in the World" column.
In his decades of violin making career, Guan Shang-chi has won recognition and recognition from the society by virtue of his devotion to violin making and his help to the employment of ethnic minorities