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• A Duo

  In 2005, A Duo rose to fame as one of mainland China’s pioneering singer-dancers, performing on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and earning a spot on the Forbes Celebrity List for three consecutive years. At the height of her career in 2012, she made a bold decision to leave the entertainment industry and return to her hometown in Xiangxi, where she began a deep study of intangible cultural heritage. After five years of quiet dedication, A Duo made a powerful comeback in 2017 with the album Resurrected from Death. In 2020, A Duo gained widespread public attention through the hit reality show Sisters Who Make Waves, introducing new ethnic music to a mainstream audience. At the end of 2024, she wrote, directed, and starred in Born with Pride, the first original stage production centered on intangible cultural heritage, telling the story of modern womanhood through indigenous aesthetics. The show received the Bazaar Art Project of the Year award.

• Bernard HSU

  Dr. Bernard, known online by the nickname "Chubbyemu", is a toxicologist and medical video creator. Through the narrative presentation of real medical cases, he teaches medical and human physiology knowledge to over 6 million followers worldwide. His popular science works have exerted significant social impacts: they once helped several top academic hospitals in the United States identify special cases and complete the recruitment for rare disease clinical trials; and promoted the legislative process of the U.S. Veterans' Medical Care Act. He was awarded the title of "Top 100 UP Main" on Bilibili for two consecutive years from 2023 to 2024, won the 2023 Gezhi Science Communication Award, and was honored as Bilibili's "Annual Overseas UP Main" in 2024.

• Changwu ZHANG

  Landspace Technology Corporation (Landspace), founded by Zhang Changwu, is a leading enterprise in China engaged in the creation and operation of aerospace transportation systems. Established in 2015, it is a national high-tech enterprise and a member of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Guided by national strategies and oriented by market demands, the company is committed to developing medium and large launch vehicle series using liquid oxygen methane as propellant, providing cost-effective and highly reliable launch services for the global market. Landspace is the first private launch vehicle enterprise in China to obtain all access qualifications. On October 27, 2018, it completed China's first private launch vehicle launch. In July 2023, its independently developed Zhuque-2 became the world's first liquid oxygen methane launch vehicle to successfully reach orbit. In the same year, it achieved consecutive launch successes and carried commercial satellites. To date, Landspace has achieved 4 consecutive launch successes, and continues to focus on liquid oxygen methane rocket and reusable rocket technologies, aiming to achieve high payload, high-frequency and low-cost rocket launches, contributing to China's satellite networking program.

• Dan Zeng

  Danzeng is a Khampa man with a fascinating soul and rich experiences. Beneath his rugged exterior lies a meticulous nature – known as "Uncle Herdsman" among friends and "Tibetan Expedition Doctor" among guests. Having studied abroad since childhood, he embarked on a career in cultural tourism upon returning to China, leading travelers, entrepreneurs, zoologists, artists, and Hollywood stars through the Tibetan regions. With over 20 years of experience in Tibetan cultural tourism, Danzeng possesses exceptional professional expertise. Meanwhile, through his own ways and persistence, he has consciously or unconsciously been leading trends in his hometown. Danzeng wears many hats. He was once the principal of an orphanage in the Tibetan area, a pioneer who witnessed the takeoff of high-end tourism in Tibet, and the owner of a Tibetan café in Nanluoguxiang, Beijing. Since returning to his hometown in 2013, he has become a trailblazer who first sparked the trend of Tibetan house renovation in China's "Capital of Tibetan Residential Art", the founder of Tibetan expedition tours, a designer of new Tibetan-style spaces, and the founder of the Himalayan Kitchen catering brand.

• DOU DOU

  Doudou is the world's first explorer to complete ice diving in the three poles: Antarctica, the Arctic, and Tibet. Holder of China's latest altitude record for hot air balloon free flight at 9,867 meters in 2024.The documentaries she has participated in hosting have been broadcast in over 170 countries in 43 languages. PADI Diving Ambassador, WWF Celebrity Volunteer, ADEX Marine Environmental Protection Ambassador, Marine Exploration Ambassador, and has served as a judge in many international photography competitions. As a wildlife photographer, she has traveled to 168 countries focusing on marine scientific expeditions and adventures, summited the 8,848-meter Mount Everest, and dived 300 meters deep into the sea. She founded the ESG sustainable travel brand "Mumu Nature" in China, which connects with research institutions to carry out high-quality nature popularization, environmental education, outdoor sports skills training and other work for the public.

• EVO HU

  As a dancer who bridges the gap between China's "post-breakdancing era" and "street dance culture era," EVO has always harbored deep affection for street dance—a raw, urban-born dance form—and maintained a humble attitude and a spirit of exploration toward its root culture. Inspired and guided by early domestic pioneers such as Lin Dong and Shang Siyang since 1998, EVO has over the years left his footprints in Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Africa, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other regions through learning, field research, exchanges, and teaching. Since 2011, he has successively joined the Electric Boogaloo Family—the founding team of American Popping—and a South Korean Miaow (a style of street dance) team, devoting more efforts to inheriting the classic culture of street dance and innovating its creative forms. In 2021, he took on the roles of choreographer and actor for the amateur theater production Youyou Vision.

• Haijie HU

  Hu Haijie is the co-founder and creative director of VAV STUDIO, a spatial experience firm. As an interdisciplinary pioneering designer and long-term practitioner of narrative spaces, his research focuses on cutting-edge fields such as hybrid fields, emotional engineering, and hidden technology. In 2013, Hu Haijie and Tobias Geisler co-founded VAV STUDIO, a spatial experience firm, in Frankfurt, Germany, focusing on spatial narrative in the fields of interaction and experience. Subsequently, they established VAV STUDIO teams in Shanghai and Shenzhen in 2015 and 2022 respectively. Since 2022, he has served as an overseas tutor at the China Academy of Art and a practice professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); and since 2024, he has been appointed as a visiting professor at the School of Design, East China Normal University.

• Hanwen ZHENG

  ZHENG Hanwen has led Parkway in its global expansion, establishing 9 high-end chain institutions and 1 haute couture aesthetics art center, with its business reaching 43 major cities in China. As a pioneer in haute couture aesthetics, she was the first to introduce the concept of "private beauty customization" into China, which was later upgraded to "minimalist haute couture aesthetics". Under her leadership, Parkway has achieved remarkable results in the business field: it became the only medical aesthetics brand included in The Yearbook of the People's Republic of China (2014 Volume), successfully listed on the National Equities Exchange and Quotations, won awards such as "Most Competitive Model Brand" and "Most Valuable Investment Brand", and was rated as Shanghai's Annual Private Enterprise Headquarters. Meanwhile, she is a firm advocate of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and a charity ambassador. With the mission of "creating beauty and spreading love", she established the "Parkway Beautiful Angel Special Fund" under the Shanghai Charity Foundation, dedicated to helping children and women. She also enjoys an international reputation. She once served as the co-chair of the Better World Foundation at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the "Most Beautiful Dedication Award". She has been successively reported by journals such as Marie Claire, L'officiel Monaco and Le Figaro, showcasing Oriental charm and female power to the world. As a director of the Chinese Association of Plastics and Aesthetics, she provides valuable suggestions for the development of the industry. She initiated the "Extraordinary Women Plan" and has millions of followers on social networking platforms. Her achievements and influence lie not only in the innovation of the industry but also in the interpretation and transmission of beauty and love.

• Haozheng PEI

  Pei Haozheng, a scientific artist, Olympic designer, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and project mentor at Peking University and MIT. His research focuses on origami and deployable structure design, integrating mathematical logic, geometric topology, and artistic aesthetics. He has won the World Championship at the International Origami Olympiad along with 6 individual gold medals, the China Excellent Cultural and Museum Social Education Case Award (the highest award in the cultural and museum field), and the Best Work Award of the National Stadium. He was also awarded the high honor of "Boao Youth Leader" by Li Zhaoxing, the 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of China. As an artist invited by governments including those of the UK and the US, he has participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad; his works are permanently collected by national first-class museums, multiple international organizations, and peace ambassadors from over 20 countries around the world.

• Jia LIU

  LIU Jia is a young dancer and First-Class Performer. He graduated from the PLA Academy of Art, once worked at the Frontline Art Troupe of the Political Department of the Nanjing Military Region, and currently holds a position at Nanjing University of the Arts. He has won awards at home and abroad, including the Gold Award for Performance at the Lotus Award (China's top dance award), the Gold Award for Dance Drama Performance at the Lotus Award, as well as the Gold Award for Performance and the Best Choreography Award at the CCTV Television Dance Competition. He has appeared twice on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. His representative works include Dance Smash, Call Me By Fire, Ode to the Earth, Nuoma Ami, Ode to the Motherland, and Frankenstein.

• Jiaming ZHANG

  ZHANG Jiaming has participated in many film and television works such as the movies Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child and Nezha: Chaos in the Sea, served as the dubbing director of the Bilibili animation Humble Me, Just a Wild Monster and dubbed multiple roles. Other dubbing works include: the game Planet: Restart; radio dramas Swordsman in the Snow and Mobius Time and Space, etc. He works as a visiting professor (in the field of film and television performance and dubbing) and a specially-appointed lecturer at many domestic universities. He provides performance guidance and line guidance for some film and television works. The JAMMONKEY (Jam Monkey) team led by him provides dubbing, sound effects, music and other services for the industry. He also acts as a motion capture director and motion capture actor, being active in the film, television, game and animation industries.

• Jianyuan TANG

  Tang Jianyuan was born in Hong Kong, China in 1946. In his early years, he studied under the great sinologist Professor Rao Zongyi, listening to his qin (guzheng) playing and receiving guidance in the research of two types of qin literature: qin scores and qin theories, which laid the foundation for his practice in four levels: technique, art, learning, and Tao. Later, he studied under qin masters such as Wu Zonghan and Wang Yici of the Mei'an School; Cai Deyun of the Fanchuan School; Sun Yuqin of the Shanlin School; Wu Jinglue of the Yushan School; and also sought advice from Yang Xinlun of the Lingnan School and Wang Huade of the Chuan School. Tang Jianyuan has been playing the qin for more than 50 years. In his middle age, he gradually formed his own style, which is elegant, quiet, mellow, ancient, and long-lasting. Just as Tai Gu Yi Yin (ancient qin book) puts it, "like a lonely cloud in the vast sky, rolling and stretching with the wind, never dispersing for a long time". His playing features endless variations in hardness and softness, continuity and interruption, complexity and simplicity, and he is especially skilled in using "yin" and "nao" (vibrato techniques in qin playing). Each piece has its own charm, and connoisseurs praise it as "the qin rhyme of the Tang School". Tang Jianyuan learned the techniques of making and repairing qin from Sun Yuqin and Wu Jinglue. Over 50 years, he has collected more than 100 old qin from the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and has never stopped repairing and making qin. His fine qin, with wonderful sounds at the fingertips and lingering aftertones, are cherished and treasured by qin enthusiasts at home and abroad. In addition, Tang Jianyuan has conducted research in fields such as oracle bone inscriptions, Cantonese opera, Nanyin (Southern Music) singing, purple clay teapots, Pu'er tea, and Redology (studies of Dream of the Red Chamber), and is known as a "polymath scholar".

• Jiyun GU

  Having been deeply engaged in family law research for over a decade, GU Jiyun boasts a solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience. She has represented hundreds of family law cases, including multiple divorce cases involving hundreds of millions of yuan in family assets, and published academic papers such as A Study on Paternity Testing under the Framework of the Civil Code. She serves as a lecturer for the "Xiaofa Youth League" in Minhang District, Shanghai, delivering over 100 legal lectures and psychological counseling sessions to enterprises, prisons, and communities. Additionally, She acts as a specially-invited commentator for the Public Welfare Lawyers Group of Minhang District Radio Station in Shanghai, participating in numerous program recordings.

• Junkai WEN

  Dr. WEN Junkai is a Ph.D. in Chinese Medicine, editorial board member of Chinese Medicine Internationalization Research, and recipient of multiple awards, including the China Association of Chinese Medicine Excellence in Thesis Award, National Excellent Paper Award for Young and Middle-aged Scholars in Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Oncology, National Best Creativity Award in TCM Museum Design Competition, and China Association of Chinese Medicine Diagnostic Branch Excellent Paper Award. He serves as the director of the Chinese Medicine Program at the Cross-Straits Fair for Economy and Trade3, a contributing columnist for "TCM Insights" on the Xuexi Qiangguo Platform, and a writer for Shanghai Chinese Medicine Daily. He has participated in the Ministry of Education’s Annual Special Project for Belt and Road International Cooperation78, the Southeast Asia TCM Strategic Talent Cultivation Model Research, and the China-Philippines TCM Center project910. Dr. Wen founded the nonprofit organization Joyage (Joyage Happy Aging People), dedicated to advancing TCM internationalization and community health promotion while fostering age-friendly health ecosystems. Through initiatives like "TCM in Schools: Children’s First Lesson in Sinology," "Paid Wellness Programs for Professionals," "Health Literacy Academy for Seniors," and "Women’s Health Conferences," he has connected a citywide health ecosystem spanning 52 universities, community centers, and commercial complexes across Shanghai. This initiative, now Shanghai’s largest TCM public welfare program, has served over 50,000 people and been invited to share TCM insights at Shanghai Media Group and the CTB Global Youth Research and Innovation Forum.

• Kailing HSU

  Kailing is a true "slash youth" with multiple identities, among which rescuing stray animals is the one she takes the greatest pride in. Encountering those "its" (stray animals) has been a precious experience in her life, and it was precisely them that made her decide to take rescuing stray animals as her lifelong mission. In 2007, after she came to work in Shanghai alone from Taiwan, the companionship and dependence of her cat Baggio brought her greatest warmth and comfort. Two years later, when Kailing stepped into marriage and started a new family, Baggio's passing left her deeply sorrowful. Later, she rescued and adopted A Gui, who looked remarkably like Baggio, saving him from the jaws of death. It was then that she began running her foster home for stray animals, helping them find warm families where they could be each other's companions. After that, she met Fei Liu, a stray animal abandoned due to paraplegia. To take care of Fei Liu, she learned nursing and medical knowledge, and devoted more effort to looking after it. She took Fei Liu to many places to see the beauty of the world and also received much love from travelers along the way.

• Nan LIU

  LIU Nan has accompanied and nurtured nearly a hundred young talents in the workplace, among whom 20% achieved promotions in their early twenties. As a long-term practitioner and lecturer of growth mindset, she believes that every trial, error, and turning point is an opportunity to expand the boundaries of cognition. In recent years, she has embarked on another path in life as a "new blogger and painter". Her oil paintings have been selected for the "Super Puzzle" Art Festival, and her first solo exhibition The Wrinkle of Time is currently in preparation. She has always pursued spiritual nourishment without clear "titles" — seemingly useless, yet they are the source of creativity. She is not obsessed with role definitions, nor is she eager to label the future. "I don't even know who I will be," is her most sincere answer to self-exploration. On the road of constant evolution, she is willing to take curiosity as a lamp and move towards the unpredictable distance.

• XiaoDong WEN

  In 2013, WEN XiaoDong joined Fosun Group and founded Starvision Holdings. In September 2017, under his leadership, Starvision Holdings—on behalf of Fosun—successfully delivered China’s first privately-led high-speed railway PPP project: the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taizhou Railway. In 2022, Fosun Infrastructure launched “StarRail Journeys,” a rail-based tourism brand now operating premium trains such as the Silk Road Dream Express. These services offer immersive travel experiences tailored to families. Under WEN XiaoDong's leadership, Fosun Infrastructure is actively building a comprehensive railway ecosystem across high-speed rail investment, logistics, and cultural tourism—realizing a vision of “mobility for people, smooth flow for goods,” and contributing to the high-quality development of China’s modern railway industry.

• Yan LV

  LV Yan started her modeling career in 1999, and soon rose to prominence on the international stage. Collaborating with numerous top domestic and foreign brands as well as master-level figures, she has created many classic works. In 2013, she founded the brand COMME MOI and serves as its chief manager, reshaping the image of contemporary new women through urban fashion. After her career transition, she has also won many awards successively, such as being listed in the BOF 500 (the 500 most influential people in the global fashion industry) and being shortlisted for the Annual Most Influential Business Women in China (Future List), etc. In 2015, COMME MOI opened its first flagship store on Donghu Road in Shanghai. In 2023, COMME MOI held a grand show celebrating its 10th anniversary in Shanghai, joining hands with 22 cross-era supermodels to create a rare and famous scene in the fashion industry, which also marked the brand's entry into a more modern and lightweight new stage.

• Yuxi CAO

  CAO Yuxi is a pioneering figure in China's new media art field. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Computer Art Department of the School of Visual Arts in New York. With "dialogue between tradition and technology" as the core, he integrates artificial intelligence, data visualization and Oriental aesthetics to create iconic works such as AI Landscape Painting and Multidimensional Sampling, exploring new possibilities of art in the digital age. In 2022, he served as the visual effects director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Through LED screens and real-time rendering technology, he presented stunning scenes such as "Water of the Yellow River" and "Ice and Snow Five Rings", deconstructing traditional ink painting with technology and realizing the global expression of "Chinese-style romance". His works have been collected in public spaces such as Beijing Daxing International Airport and Shenzhen Metro, and he has held large-scale solo exhibitions in Shenzhen, Shanghai and other places, promoting new media art to the public.

• Zhe LIN

  LIN Zhe rang the bell for her march onto the international music stage by securing the second place at the 5th World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart. This marked the first time a Chinese received recognition at a large-scale, high-level marimba competition, and the result remains the highest ranking achieved by Chinese players in this field to date. Moreover, she claimed the first place at the 59th German International Percussion Competition in Lübeck and the first place at the China International Marimba Competition. She was the sole winner of the Yamaha Award in Austria, where other participants included champions of the recent two ARD International Competitions. In 2024, she became a key member of the National Art Fund's small theater project.