YUAN Yinghui is a news reporter and editor at Beijing TV Station (BTV), the second largest station in China. She joined the news department in l995 as a reporter covering economic and financial news, and soon was promoted to chief editor of a news program. When BTV established English-language news in l999, she was selected as chief editor. She currently supervises all aspects of this daily l0-minute broadcast, including collecting news materials, writing news items and composing the program.

Her coverage of economic issues included a ground-breaking eight-minute TV news item titled 'Venture Capital is Coming', which was awarded several prizes. Her exposure to environmental issues through a news program at her station, 'Returning Beijing to a City with Green Waters and Blue Sky', inspired an active interest in environmental protection. She now is trying to establish an ongoing television program reporting environment issues.

She received her master's degree in classical Chinese poetry in 1995 and her bachelor's degree in Chinese literature in 1992, both from the Capital Normal University. During each year of her undergraduate studies, she was selected as the 'excellent student of the year' and upon graduation was awarded the title of 'excellent graduate'.