Yang Lan

Yang Lan (March 31, 1968 -), native of Shanghai, is a Chinese television host and entrepreneur. Yang Lan graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University with a bachelor's degree in English and American Language and Literature. From 1990 to 1994, he served as the host of CCTV's "Zhengda Variety Show" and won China's first host "Golden Microphone Award" in 1994. After that, he went to the United States for further study, where he studied at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and received a master's degree in international affairs. After returning from studying in the United States, he joined Phoenix TV in Hong Kong and created the first in-depth high-end interview program "Yang Lan Studio" (later changed to "Interviews with Yang Lan") in China. So far, "Interviews with Yang Lan" has interviewed more than 600 famous people around the world and has a high reputation among Chinese-speaking audiences around the world. In 1999, Sunshine Media Group was founded by Wu Zheng and Ms. Yang Lan. In 2000, Yang Lan and her husband Wu Zheng founded Sunshine TV, the first historical and humanities TV channel in Greater China. In 2005, Yang Lan founded Tianxia Women, a talk show mainly targeting Chinese urban women, and has since developed into an interactive cross-media women's community using television, the Internet, and education and training as platforms. Yang Lan is the co-founder and chairman of Sunshine Media Group and Sunshine Culture Foundation.