Influencers
The portraits of China's influencers and how may you connect them
Duo Duo: Moving from senior manager to customized desserts
Huang Tianyi: New life starts at Lucia's jewelry store in Hong Kong
Huang Tianyi had worked in finance field in Hong Kong for several years. But now he runs his own jewelry store, Lucia's, and starts a new life.
Tasha: Bring Chinese independent fashion design to London
As a fashion buyer, Tasha thinks that aesthetic and taste could be popularized just like wealth.
Yang Linhua："Guifabu" A new media platform in the technology field
After working at 21st Century Business Herald since 2008, Yang Linhua deciedes to open her own website called "Guifabu".
Kelly: How to job-hopping in the competitive working market?
Kelly started an education platform named CareerFrog for college students and the youth to searching job. Now she launch another head-hunting company called Kelly Placement.
Ling Feng: CityZine has attracted 200 thousands fans to follow.
Ling Feng, the director of Cityzine, creates this independent media brand, and it attracts 20 thousands fans to follow. It also leads to the launch of derivative brand such as "Afternoon Auction", which has influences among the followers.
Qiuyue: Are you normal? – How to let Chinese tell the truth?
As a TV producer, Qiu Yue made her biggest TV real show program in 2014. This program is called "Are you normal?". The audience rating has almost reached 300 millions, which has earn the program the highest hits in the history.
Ying Zhaojun: It is always worth designing your own small apartment.
Architect Ying Zhaojun used his own home renovation program to attract a lot of public attention. He said that everyone should have the passion to live a better life.
Lu Gang: TechNode Encourages Start-ups
Lu Gang wants to report the most advanced technology. He sets his eyes in China. He profoundly understands that China is going to be the major force in science innovation.
Li Haisen: Crowd Funding A School at Kenya
Li Haisen quits his high-salary job at Singapore, and then went to Kenya. He is a Buddhist. His dream is to help more people.
Ms. Bubble: Dyslexia Opens My Window in Graphic Facilitation
Ms. Bubble’s unusual talent in graphic expression was discovered in her childhood, but she didn’t know that she had dyslexia until she was 26.
Cai Yanni: She Makes Eating Alone Artisitc
Cai describes her viral videos Eating Alone as an unintentionally great outcome. With the success the series gains, she carries on to publish the paper version of Eating Alone. She says, eating alone is not lonely.
Huang Lei: Crowdfunding Humanitarian Business
Huang Lei works for Abundant Whale as creative director. Because her dream is to be creative, not dealing with the same people and stuff everyday. She needs a getaway from the mundaneness.
Xu Danei: Wechat Public Account Ranking
Xu Danei is a penname. ‘Danei’ is taken from the French football player, Zidane. Xu says, ‘I am not an intellectual, I am more like a business person.’
Zhang Fan: Tailor Your Travel Plan Using Big Data
Zhang Fan is using data science to solve our decision issue when making travel plans.
Gong Xiaoming: Medical Practice Is Service
Gong was working at China’s best state-owned hospital when he figured out the idea of putting gynecologist network on the Internet. He is the leader in the digitalization of medical information in China.
Liu Xian: Producer of Voice on CCTV1
Voice is a celebrity talk show on CCTV1. The show features celebrities’ personal life experience and expresses power and strength to the public. Voice is one of the most influential TV show in China.
Zhang Zhiwei: He Makes Sound Design A Profession
Zhang Zhiwei was the sound designer for China’s hottest online comedy. Before that he founded the first sound design major at Beijing Contemporary Music School.
Guo Lie: Phenomenal App Creator Loves Having Fun
MYOTee ranked the top on mobile phone App download chart in 18 different countries and regions in one month. The man behind it, is a 20 year old boy, who loves cartoon and fun. He believes that if something brings you happiness, then it is worth doing.
Tang Guanhua, Xing Zhen: Retrieve Self Sufficiency Experiment
A couple born in 1980s, Tang Guanhua and Xingchen, started to return to nature since 2008 following the idea in The New Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour. Their project is called ‘Another Land’.
Steve: Psychologist Helps You Date Scientifically
Steve helps young people date good and happy.
Song Song: The Vegetarian Persistent
Song Song quits his job at KPMG and a consulting company, where he is a founder, to fulfill his mission about vegetarian life. Now his NGO VeggieDorm has successfully organized about 100 vegetarians at Shanghai.
Peng Yu: Let Children Say ‘Hi Nature’
The pursuit of Peng Yu and Hinature has never changed: they want to show the fun of nature to kids in Guangdong.
Dai Yanan: My Responsibility Lies In Marketing for NGOs
A senior media practitioner finds her mission in helping NGOs getting more attention. Her InspiringNPO is an experiment in Chinese social enterprise.
Zhang Na: Independent Fashion Designer
People say it is a hard time for independent fashion designers. But Zhang Na makes her way in competition with chain stores.
Zhang Anding: A Rocker Leading The Trend in Market Research
A rocker, a journalist, a leader, a Foucault believer, an anthropologist and sociologist, all these identities are describing one person: Zhang Anding. Now Zhang has a new goal. He wants market research to have social impact.
Qiao Wanshan: Sustainable Fashion Creates Value
After Graduate from Harvard, Qiao could have chosen a much easier career. Instead, she chooses to do something no one has ever done before. She starts a social enterprise to help Tibetan people out of indigence. Now her brand, SHOKAY, becomes the leader in Chinese sustainable fashion industry.
DTR: When We Talk about Education, We Talk about Change.
DTR chooses to begin a study-abroad agency instead of pursuing a degree at Columbia University, because he wants to give teenagers chance to realize bigger dreams.
Zhang Hua: 100,000 Wechat Followers Economy, Experiment of Youth Business School
Zhang Hua, once wrote critics using the penname ‘Eastern Fool’, now creates an online children education account, ‘Youth MBA’, that draws over 100,000 followers on Wechat.
Xi Qiao: Freedom Is the Core of My Life
Xi Qiao is the site manager of Designlol.net, also she is the cartoonist of Mysterious Programmer.
Chen Yanfei: Living with Chinese Calligraphy
The Creator of 'Pusu'. Chen is a furniture designer who goes into Calligraphy, an art form of traditional Chinese handwriting.
Duo Duo-From an auditor to highend dessert customization
Ten years ago, Duoduo just graduated from school and started her career life. Six years ago, she was a senior manager in PWC and a new mother. Three years ago, she quitted her job and became crazy about baking. Gradually she turned her interest in baking into a profession to make customized cake for her customers.
Zhou Siling: I’m an ABC, I’m also a sandwich
American-born Chinese (ABC) Zhou Siling produced the video《本国卢瑟》(LBH-Loser Back Home), which has over 650’000 views online. During it, he uses quick, slightly accented Chinese to describe a strange issue that he sees occurring in China — having a green card has it’s advantages, but why do Chinese girls prefer these “foreigners”? He also has his own “sandwich problem”.
Zhang Hua: 100,000 WeChat followers economy: Experiment of Youth Business School
Zhang Hua, a senior media practitioner, began his career by being a critic under the name of “Oriental fool” and became a reporter of business and fortune.
Lisa Chang: Secrets of a supermom
She said, I have done everything that I wanted to do.
Zhang Anding: Youthology: Internet anthropology of a rock man
He wears a youthlogy bracelet engraved “Being young entitles you to say fuck”, which perfectly represents his philosophy.
Run Xichen: Traditional Chinese Beauty in Vintage Photography
Run Xichen, owner of a photo studio is better described as a chaser of traditional culture and art dream.
Teng Jingshu: The following 30 years are golden times for Chinese movies
Her experience as a movie critic has brought her a career possibility by founding” Teng Jinshu Movie Critics Group”.
Liu Xiaolu: Listen to Her Voice. Listen to Yourself.
As a little girl, Liu Xiaolu dreamt of setting up a university for women.
Tasha：Aesthetic and Taste can be Educated
When Tasha was writing a column of Chinese designers, she got acquainted with the two founders of Dongliang, Charles and Nan Lang.
Sun Xiaoxiao：Learn how to learn
Sun Xiaoxiao always keeps learning and turns her interests into her professions.
Zhao Zhibo：A dancer at the age of 30
Zhao Zhibo is a professional dancer. Now she is a Sandwicher at her 30s. Instead of facing career transition, she opened herself to more possibilities.
Xing Lida：From Mammoth to Dinosaur
Xing Lida, a dinosaur lover in his childhood, becomes a researcher of dinosaur and palaeontology.
Cheng Liang：An Internet Company CEO and Film Director
Chengliang is a young director in Shanghai Film-making Company. He is also known as the CEO of an internet company.
Bai Lili: Life continues for a retired female football player
Bai Lili, former football player for Chinese National Women Football Team, broke her tendon in the semi-final of Asian Cup in 2006, thus terminated her professional life at the age of 27.
Fu Zhen & Mao Mingji: Gap Year Travel on Air
Fuzhen keep updating her Gap Year travelling in the past six month on her blog (fz0512.com), which the subscribers are envious of.
Qian Xun: An Idealist Insider
Qianxun, holding a postgraduate degree of journalism, gave up her dream of being a journalist, worked for China’s aerospace industry for five years in a confidential state enterprise.
Zuo Zhijian & Chen Zhongxiaolu: A couple of investigative journalists
In the past ten years as investigative journalists, they closely witnessed the violent and unpredictable changes in China.
Xi Qiao: Freedom Is The Core of the Luxury Life
In her eyes, Xi Qiao believe that she is living a “luxury” life, not in terms of money but of freedom, which is not affordable by most people of our generation.