'She' in China

Updated: 2016-03-07 14:33

By Li Hongrui(chinadaily.com.cn)

Yao Chen. [Photo/IC]

Yao Chen

Who is she?

Actress

What she has achieved?

Yao Chen, who most people know through her wonderful performance in the 2006 comedy series, My Own Swordsman. Since then, she has become one of the most influential actresses in China. In 2009 she started to use her Sina Weibo, which now has 79 million followers, to help people in need. In 2013 she became the first UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees) goodwill ambassador in China. And at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2016, she was awarded the Crystal Award for artists who commit themselves to improve the state of the world.