Taiwan compatriots use intangible cultural heritage as a media to build a bridge for cross-strait exchanges. Tong Yanting is a member of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

She became a teacher at the School of Art and Design of Wuhan University of Technology in 2013. Through her matchmaking, the National Taiwan Federation and Cross-Strait Intangible Cultural Inheritance and Development Exchange Base was settled at Wuhansi University.