Who is actor Wang Lan’s husband?

Yang Lan’s husband is Wu Zheng:

Yang Lan’s husband Wu Zheng: 1. The life and educational background of the founder of Sunshine Media and Hongyan Capital Group Wu Zheng, the founder of Sunshine Media Investment Group

Founder of Sunshine Media Investment Group

Wu Zheng was born in Shanghai in November 1966 and his native place is Yixing, Jiangsu. My father is a professor of educational psychology. My mother is a middle school Chinese teacher. My grandfather, Wu Kaisheng, was a famous barrister in Shanghai during the Republic of China. He studied in France in his early years and made major contributions to the recovery of the Hankou Concession and the rescue of many Communist leaders. He has written many legal monographs and is a famous figure in the history of Chinese law.

Wu Zheng studied in Shanghai Jiangsu Road No.5 Primary School, No.3 Middle School and No.2 Middle School Affiliated to East China Normal University. During his schooling, he won many awards in national and Shanghai composition and English competitions. In 1985, he was recommended by the school and directly entered Fudan University without taking the exam. In order to inherit the family tradition, I went to France to study, so I chose the French literature major in the Department of Foreign Languages.

Wu Zheng graduated from the French Language and Literature Institute of Savoyard University in France in 1986 and received the "Advanced Diploma in French Literature Studies". He arrived in San Francisco, USA in August 1988, and transferred to St. Louis a year later. In 1990, he received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Calvin Stockton College in the United States. Later, he entered the University of Washington to study for a master's degree in international relations. In order to pay for the expensive tuition, Wu Zheng worked part-time and joined Metropolitan Insurance Company in January 1991 as branch deputy manager and "Asian Market Specialist", responsible for developing the local Chinese market. Later, class action lawsuits broke out in many states across the United States, accusing insurance companies of using "savings protection" to promote life insurance, which was suspected of being misleading. Wu Zheng could not avoid being involved, but he was later removed from the defendants by the plaintiff and switched to suing only the insurance company. . Wu Zheng also left Metropolitan Insurance Company after graduating with a master's degree and started his own business.

Mr. Wu Zheng received a master's degree from the University of Washington in 1993. From 1994 to 1996, he studied correspondence courses at the University of Barrington in the United States. The University of Barrington is a distance education institution. Although its academic qualifications are not recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, more than 100 of the top 500 companies in the United States recognize that employees accept its correspondence courses. After starting his own business, Mr. Wu Zheng began to engage in investment majors other than his major in international relations, so he took correspondence courses to remediate his financial investment knowledge. The school is still in operation today and has branches in Asia and Africa in addition to the United States. Mr. Hou Wu Zheng studied at the School of International Political Relations at Fudan University from 1997 to 2000 and received a doctorate. From 1997 to 2001, Wu Zheng was successively employed by Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai University as a visiting professor, Project Hope and senior consultant of Peking University China Economic Research Center.

From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Wu Zheng founded Bona Investment Consulting Company and served as chairman and president. He facilitated several cross-border mergers and investment transactions, and jointly developed Greater China Television with "Warner Music Group" market.

Between June 1998 and February 1999, Mr. Wu Zheng participated in the acquisition of Hong Kong Asia Television and served as the President of Operations. During this period, he drastically reorganized ATV and introduced a series of new programs such as "Looking for Stories from Another Place", "The Crying Forest", "Foraging for the End of the World", etc., all of which received good response, which once severely damaged ATV's dominant position in TVB. , creating the best stage in history.

In 1994, Yang Lan gave up her hosting position at CCTV and was funded by Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group to study in the United States. During this period, she met Wu Zheng, and the two married in 1995.

Entrepreneurship experience

Mr. Wu Zheng is the founder of Sunshine Media Investment Group. He served as the chairman of the group from its founding in 1999 to August 2007. Sunshine Media Investment Group is a leading private media group in China, with operations in more than 20 countries and regions around the world. It owns shares in nearly 20 media information companies and multiple media brands and products. In the 2004 independent evaluation by China Media magazine, Sunshine Media Investment ranked first in terms of comprehensive strength and first in profit among China's private (non-state-owned) media and information enterprises; in the same evaluation in 2005, Sunshine Media Investment The comprehensive investment strength ranks second, but the total profit still ranks first among domestic private media companies. Sunshine Media Investment's profits mainly come from its investment arm. In 2007, Sunshine Media Investment Group was split into two companies, Sunshine Media Group and Red Rock Capital Group. Sunshine Media Group carries out multimedia platform business strategies across television production, large-scale performances and events, Internet community media and publishing. Tiannv Media Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sunshine Media Group, integrates relevant content and business services for its target group of urban working women communities, and has formed a leading brand of domestic female communication and marketing companies. "Sunshine Media Group" has publishing departments including "Wide Angle Lens" with a history of more than 40 years, the American "Entertainment Today" magazine and the online publishing business of more than 740 Chinese magazines. Its television department owns "Interviews with Yang Lan", "Sunshine" Culture" and other well-known brands, and its large-scale event companies have successfully hosted large-scale performance activities such as "Singing for the Olympics", "Expo Launch Party", and "World Postal Expo". Sunshine Media Group reaches up to 200 million consumers every month through its media.

In August 2007, Mr. Wu Zheng resigned as chairman of Sunshine Media Group and founded Hongyan Capital Group based on the investment department of the original Sunshine Media Investment Group. Its business segments include venture capital, financial services, bond issuance and private equity funds. Among them, Hongyan Venture Capital Department has invested in more than 10 projects around the world. Hongyan Capital has established a joint venture with Harvest Fund Management Co., Ltd., a leading domestic fund management company, and the performance of the entire Hongyan Group has maintained a strong growth trend.

In addition, Mr. Wu Zheng and his wife Ms. Yang Lan (a famous Chinese TV personality) jointly established the Sunshine Culture Foundation. The Sunshine Cultural Foundation is a well-known charity organization in China. It aims to alleviate poverty and assist education. Through teaching and assisting students, it helps the poor and promotes the development of charity culture, thereby contributing to the establishment of a modern society of benevolence, mutual assistance, and harmony. Mr. Wu Zheng and Ms. Yang Lan have also been at the top of China's various charity rankings for many years in a row.

Other professional experience

Mr. Wu Zheng served as the Chief Operating Officer of Asia Television, one of the two pioneering television stations in Hong Kong, from June 1998 to February 1999. During his tenure, Mr. Wu Zheng significantly increased and improved Asia Television's ratings and financial position. From 2001 to 2002, "Sunshine Media" was the largest shareholder of "Sina.com" (Nasdaq: SINA), the world's largest Chinese online media company, and Mr. Wu Zheng served as the co-chairman of "Sina".

In 2003, Mr. Wu Zheng was appointed as the chairman of the "International Emmy Awards" TV Festival for a two-year term. Mr. Wu Zheng is also a member of the International Board of Directors of the American Museum of Radio and Television in New York and Los Angeles, and a trustee of the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. In 2005, Mr. Wu Zheng was appointed chairman of the Finance and Business Development Committee of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Mr. Wu Zheng is also an independent director of Shanda Entertainment (Nasdaq: SNDA), the world's leading online gaming company. In August 2009, after Shanda Entertainment acquired the controlling stake in Hurray Century (Nasdaq: HRAY), Mr. Wu Zheng resigned as a director of Shanda Entertainment and became an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of Hurray Century.

Honors and publications

In October 2007, Mr. Wu Zheng was appointed by His Majesty the Crown Prince Charles as a member of the "Global Tropical Rainforest Conservation Steering Committee" under the Prince's Fund. In 2009, Mr. Wu Zheng was appointed as a distinguished professor at the International Communication Center of the School of Communication at Tsinghua University.

Mr. Wu Zheng won the "Outstanding Media Star" award from the "Hong Kong-Macau Outstanding Persons Selection Committee" in October 1998, and was awarded the title of "Hong Kong Goodwill Ambassador" by the Hong Kong Tourism Association in 1998. In 2005, he was awarded the title of "Knight of the Red Wine" in France. In 2007, Mr. Wu Zheng was elected as a director of the European Photographic Society. In 2007 and 2009, Mr. Wu Zheng was twice named one of the top 500 richest Chinese businessmen in the world by the "World Outstanding Chinese Business Association". In 2009, he was named one of the "Best Business Figures of the Year in China" by the China-Europe Global Business Forum held in Lisbon, Portugal.

Mr. Wu Zheng is the author of the book "China's Great Power Status and International Communication Strategy" and the paper "Farewell to the Desert: New Media and the Reconstruction of Spiritual Ecology".