China’s National Science Prize awarded to UK graduate on the same day as her father
On Thursday 9 January 2020, China Media Centre PhD and screen producer Dr Zeng Rong received the P.R.C’s National Prize for Science, the highest such award in China.
This is the first time that the National Science Prize has been awarded to someone not a scientist.
The citation for the prize noted that Dr Zeng was the Originator and buy sale cialis Executive Producer of two series of the acclaimed TV documentary series The Emergency Room. The award has been made in recognition of her contribution to public understanding of medical science
The Emergency Room is a large-scale medical documentary shot by fixed camera, which was jointly made by Shanghai Media Group and Houghton Street Media. The programme documents the front line of the emergency services, revealing the fragility of life and observes the consultation process of hundreds of patients, with materials shot 24 hours a day and 7 days a week using 78 fixed cameras with a team of over 100 production personnel.
Key members of the production team comprise Westminster media alumnae, including Producer Dr Mi Miao, Production Manager Li Mengyang and Director Wang Tong. Other Westminster alumnae involved in the series include Li Yingying and He Sijia. (all women)
Dr Zeng received the prize at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing whilst in the presence of President Xi Jinping. Her father, cardiologist Dr Zeng Dingyin, received the National Prize for Scientific Research at the same ceremony.
Talking about her achievement, Dr Zeng Rong said: “I am delighted to receive this wonderful award at the Great Hall of the People. The Emergency Room has been one of the most influential television programmes about medical issues and the health services in China and nolvadex buy we are very proud of the values and contributions it has made.
The China Media Centre has given me lots of ideas, skills and special vision of transnational culture and the media industry.” I am thrilled that my father was awarded a prize in the same year. We are both very proud and grateful.”
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ZENG Rong obtained her PhD under the Director of the China Media Centre (CMC), Professor Hugo de Burgh, with a comparison of Chinese and British television news. It was published in 2012 as TELEVISION NEWS AND THE LIMITS OF GLOBALISATION (UBP). She then worked as a Post Doc at the CMC and set up Houghton Street Media (HSM) in 2014 with a fellow alumnus of the LSE, where she had taken the MA Media. Very rapidly, HSM has become one of the most innovative independents in China, producing for many different platforms and often in cooperation with UK creatives and zithromax sin receta online Production companies. It is probably the only independent in China with a Creative Development Team, devising comedies, chat shows and reality TV as well as documentary series. With offices in Shanghai and Beijing, it employs between 100 and 150 full time staff, many of whom studied media in the UK. The top management is entirely female.
The citation for the prize noted that Dr Zeng was Originator and Executive Producer of three series of the acclaimed TV documentary series The Emergency Room. Key persons of the series are Westminster alumnae, especially Li Mengyang (Production Manager) and Wang Tong (Director). Other Westninster alumnae working on the series include Li Yingying and He Sijia.
Making the day unique, Dr Zeng received the prize in the presence of President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the very same day as her father, cardiologist Professor Zeng Dingyin 曾定尹, received the National Prize for Scientific Research.
See also: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202001/13/WS5e1c35ffa31012821727093e.html
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