Zhao Yifang

Founder & CEO, Huace Group Business Circle

Zhao Yifang, Founder & CEO of Huace Group, has engaged in TV & film industry for 30 years. Before she established Huace Group, Zhao Yifang once was the Standing Committee of Dongyang People's Congress and Representative of Jinhua People's Congress. She is now the vice president of China Television Drama Production Industry Association, vice chairman of Zhejiang Television Artists Association, and president of Hangzhou Film and Television Artists Association. She was awarded the Cultural Celebrity & “Four Batch” Talent by Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee in 2015, the Most Valuable President of Listed Company in China in 2015, and the Médaille d’ Honneur by MIPTV in 2017. Under her leadership, China Huace Film & TV Co. Ltd is founded in 2005, becomes a listed enterprise in 2010, and develops into China’s leading media enterprise as Huace Group in 2014.

On Oct. 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping went to the United Kingdom for a state visit, attending China UK Creative Industry Event. Huace Group was invited to the event as the only private enterprise. President Xi warmly met with president of Huace Group Zhao Yifang. Mrs. Zhao briefed Huace's lasting plan for culture spreading and the distribution for industrial development, which was approved of and encouraged by president Xi.