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Producer Katherine HU/XiaoLan HU

Xiaolan HU / Katherine HU Contributing Producer of FTChinese.com

Education Experience：
1.Sep. 1995 to Jul. 1999 [Bachelor Degree] – [Marketing] [Beijing University of Technology • College of Economics and Management ]

2.Sep. 2003 to Sep. 2005 [Postgraduate Program] – [Journalism] [ Peking University • School of Journalism and Communication ]

3.Sep. 2013 to Jul. 2014 [EMBA Program] – [Tsinghua University Media EMBA Scholarship Program] [Tsinghua University • School of Economics and Management ]

[Main Duties]:Contributing Producer of FTChinese.com
As the video production partner of FTChinese.com, independently plan and produce the video programs with international   perspective and humanistic care.

[Enterprise Introduction]:
FTChinese.com is the only Chinese business and finance website subordinate to British Financial Times Group, aimed at providing daily indispensible business financial news, in-depth analysis and comment for Chinese elites and policymakers. It has 2,700,000 registered users at present

[Main Duties]:
1. Co-planning and filming documentary series “Double-Faced China” with American director (currently in postproduction phase);

2. As the general judge and media counselor, take part in the philanthropic project – “China Social Entrepreneurs Star” Competition.

[Previous Positions]:
√ The founding producer of “We Are The Hero”, a standing large weekly TV program of Finance Channel;

√  Executive chief director of “The First Lesson of School”, an annual educational TV show of CCTV;

√  Editor-in-chief and director of “Spring 2007”, a large series charitable TV program and campaign all year round;

√  Chief writer of “Entrepreneurship: Our Stories”, a series documentary on the most famous entrepreneurs and startups;

√  Executive chief director of “Youth Entrepreneur Star of China”, a series national youth entrepreneur competition show;

√  General coordinator and director of “Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities”, a series national city branding competition campaign & show;

√  Chief editor of national daily live news program “Economic News”;

√  Chief editor of daily documentary column “Classic Documentary”;

√  Reporter & editor on international news of “Economic News”.

[Enterprise Introduction]:
CCTV (China Central Television), the most influential media in China, is the national television with the widest coverage and the largest audiences. The national penetration reaches 99.61% and the audiences exceed 1,300,000,000 and the urban penetration reaches up to 100%. Finance Channel is an all-media broadcast platform, concentrating on finance, information and life field, which occupies 85% of national television finance program market. The domestic coverage population is 1,100,000,000 and the total subscribers of social media exceed 50,000,000. The advertisement income of 2017 exceeds RMB 2,000,000,000 Yuan ($298,500,000).

Commentary Articles
1. Xiaolan XU, ““We Are The Hero”: A Exemplar That The Television Finance Program to Practice Social Responsibility”, “China Radio & TV Academic Journal”, the 4th Issue of 2017

2. Jiaze SUN, “Thinking About The High Audience Rating of “We Are The Hero””, “News Front”, Aug., 2016

3. Xian PAN, “Idea and Practice of Entrepreneurship Reality Show – Take “We Are The Hero” of CCTV as the Example”, “Media”, Sep., 2017

4. Liangzi JIN, “Inspire Social Innovation, Build Hero Of The Era”, “Radio and Television Review”, the 17th Issue of 2016

Review Work
From Apr., 2014 to Jun., 2018    Chief Judge of “China Social Entrepreneur Star” Competition

Academic Articles/Published Books
1. Xiaolan HU, “Philanthropy video is the Super Power to Boost Social Progress”, “China Philanthropy Times”, 2019 (to be published)

2. Xiaolan HU, “Entrepreneurship: Our Stories” (Book), Aug., 2011

3. Xiaolan HU, “Young Heart” (Book), Jan., 2009

Honors and Awards
1. May 2016: “We Are The Hero” is awarded The First Prize of Top 10 Television Educational Programs of 2015, China Radio and Television Association (CRTA)

2. Oct., 2016: “We Are The Hero” is awarded The Innovative and Excellent TV Program of China of the 3rd quarter of 2016, State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of China

3. Apr., 2008, “Spring 2007” is honored with China Charity Award of 2007 as the core component of “2007 Media Charity Love Movement”, Ministry of Civil Affairs of China

4. Nov., 2013, “Mentorship” (renamed as “We Are The Hero”), planned by Xiaolan HU, is awarded Silver Award of The First CCTV Creative Program Competition, China Central Television (CCTV)

5. Jul., 2008, “Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities” is awarded China Benchmarking Brand of Media Industry of 2008, Chinese version of Columbia Journalism Review

Media Reports
1.      “CCTV CHEN Weihong, DOU Yan and HU Xiaolan visit Sohu.com to talk about the knowledge of two sessions”, Sohu News, Mar. 11, 2007

(*two sessions：the National People's Congress（NPC）& the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC))

2.      “Introduce Chinese famous cities with the Olympics and see which city is the most attractive”, CCTV International, Apr. 17, 2007

3.      “The expert group of ‘Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities’ visits Dalian, where make the experts inspired”, Tianjian.com, May 31, 2007

4.      “Nanjing Government hold city branding seminar with the expert group of ‘Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities’”, Sohu News, Jun. 12, 2007

5.      “Advise on Nanjing’s tourism and make it famous all over the world”, Sohu News, Jun. 14, 2007

6.      “The expert group of ‘Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities’ ended the research in Hangzhou and evaluated positively”, Sina News, Jun. 28, 2007

7.      “The expert group of ‘Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities’ visits Hangzhou Daily Group”, Sohu News, Jul. 3, 2007

8.      “The expert group of ‘Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities’ advises the government of Luoyang, the peony city with a thousand years’ history”, Sina News, Jul. 6, 2007

9.      “Luoyang Government held seminar with the expert group of ‘Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities’, Sina News, Jul. 9, 2007

10.  “The expert Group of ‘Top 10 Chinese Famous Cities’ visits Yanbian, holy mountain and water with blooming Jindal”, Sina News, Sep. 5, 2007

11.  “The expert group ends the investigation at Yanbian”, Sina News, Sep. 5, 2007

12.   “Exceedingly beautiful Jiamusi, the most deserving city to be introduced to the world”, Sina News, Sep. 10, 2007

13.   “Exceedingly beautiful Jiamusi, the most deserving city to be introduced to the world”, China.com, Sep. 4, 2008

14.  “The 4th Beijing Normal University Philanthropy salon is held at Beijing”, ----China Philanthropy Research Institute, Jun. 22,

15.   “ ‘Godfathers’ who bend over” (picture), NetEase News, Aug. 14, 2011

16.   “Thoughts and feelings of entrepreneurship mentors” (picture), Sohu News, Aug. 20, 2011

17.   “ ‘Godfathers’ who bend over”, Ifeng.com, Nov. 11, 2011

18.   “CCTV Finance Channel launches 9 new programs”, CCTV Haocheng, Oct. 31, 2013

19.   “A non-stop wonderful! Analysis of CCTV Key Quarterly Programs of 2015”, CCTV.com, Nov. 6, 2014

20.   “Almost a hundred enterprises make explorations about branding strategy at Chengdu”, CCTV.com, Apr. 9, 2015

21.  “Almost 20 enterprises discuss the development way of Chinese ceramic brand at Guangdong”, CCTV.com, May 8, 2015

22.  “New directions of advertisement investment: 15 highlights of 2015 CCTV Finance Channel”, www.toutiao.com, May 15, 2015

23.  [Full version] “Audition Activities of ‘We Are The Hero’ at Shenzhen (24 projects)”, CCTV Finance, Jun. 8, 2015

24.  “New York Times Square Nasdaq screen salutes to China social entrepreneurs”. Sohu.com etc., more than 20 media agencies, Aug. 4, 2018