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China's Oprah Winfrey—Yang Lan
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She's the woman I admire most. She is one of China's 50 most successful entrepreneurs and probably China's wealthiest self-made woman. In the eyes of most Chinese people, she is a media personality of Oprah-level proportions.
The daughter of two professors, Yang in 1990 received a bachelor's degree in the English Language from Beijing Foreign Studies University After showing up at an open casting call in the same year, Yang was chosen from over one thousand women to be the cohost of Zheng Da,China’s top-rated talk show with an audience of 220 million.Later,she launched her journalism career with Yang Lan Horizon, a current events series that was one of the first of its kind in China. Yang now serves as the chairwoman of Sun Media Investment Holdings Limited, the business empire she created with her husband in 1999.
Despite her celebrity, Yang Lan quit the show after four years to go to New York where she spent two years earning a master's degree at Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs.
I want to share t some of her classic words with you：
“I like creativity,” she said in an interview. “I would rather fail in creating new programs than succeed in making ones from old and tired ideas.”
“Ten years ago, television was a novelty. People expected it to deliver entertainment. Today China is changing so much…they want TV that deals with their lives. They want information.”
“The real treasure of being young, in my eyes, is that you can have time to make mistakes. If at that prime time, you did not follow your dream to have adventurous life experiences, how colorless youth would be!”
Post comment Comment (2 replies)
- Reply moli
- Yang Lan is my idol in my junior middle school, the real reason why I admire her is that she speaks English greatly.
- Reply ashley0707
- moli: Yang Lan is my idol in my junior middle school, the real reason why I admire her is that she speaks English greatly.Yes,she has a good command of oral English,due to her experiences.
