Ouyang Xiadan


Ouyang Xiadan is a former Chinese news anchor best known for her tenure at China Central Television from 2003 to 2020. She won the Golden Mike Award in 2007 and the Golden Eagle Award for Best Program Host in 2008. She disappeared from public view in 2020, reportedly due to ties with Sun Lijun, and reemerged on social media in 2023.

Biography

Ouyang was born in July 1977 in Qixing District of Guilin, Guangxi. She graduated from Guilin High School as her city‘s top liberal arts student in the gaokao and was admitted to the Communication University of China in 1995, where she majored in broadcasting and graduated in 1999. Upon graduation, she declined a guaranteed postgraduate placement at the university and instead began her career at Shanghai Television, where she anchored the Shanghai Morning and Evening News for four years.
In 2003, she joined CCTV, where she anchored the morning show First Time between 2003 and 2009. She was also one of the hosts of the CCTV New Year's Gala in 2010. From August 8, 2011, to April 28, 2020, she co-anchored Xinwen Lianbo, China’s most prominent news program, before disappearing from public view, reportedly due to an investigation into her connections with disgraced official Sun Lijun. She reemerged after three years on January 1, 2023, with a post on Douyin, and began working as a part-time instructor at a training academy specializing in preparing high school students for China's university entrance exams in broadcasting and performing arts. In June of that year, CCTV removed her name from its list of anchors. In 2024, she launched accounts on Bilibili and WeChat Video.

Works

Television

Evening News Shanghai Morning First Time Focus on Xinwen Lianbo

Awards

First Time - 2007 Golden Mike Award.