WAMB Star Recommendation ▪ Chinese mainland soprano singer and national first-class actress Liu Yuanyuan

Liu Yuanyuan, born on June 28, 1976 in Dali, Yunnan Province, China, is a mainland Chinese soprano singer, first-class actress, member of the Standing Committee of the All China Youth Federation, member of the 14th Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer".  

Graduated

from Central University for Nationalities with a postgraduate degree. In 1996, she participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time and began to make a name for herself in the music industry. In 1999, he won the Special Jury Prize on the China Pop Song Chart of the Central People's Broadcasting Station for his performance of "Five Star Red Flag". In 2002, he released his first solo album 'Five Star Red Flag'. In 2004, he won the Gold Award for the Most Popular Singer among National Audiences. In 2006, she performed the song "Yingshan Hong" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. In 2007, he won the National "Five Ones" Project Award for his work on "Gratitude". In January 2009, became an expert enjoying the "Special Allowance of the State Council Government"; On October 1st, she performed her representative work "Country" at the 60th National Day Gala. On April 30, 2010, Liu Yuanyuan performed the song "Meet in Shanghai" at the opening ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo. On April 8, 2011, the release ceremony of the song "Livelihood" was held at the Great Hall of the People. In addition to her performing arts career, Liu Yuanyuan is enthusiastic about public welfare and charity. In June 2009, she was jointly awarded the title of "China Public Welfare Ambassador" by six organizations including the China Association for the Promotion of Public Welfare and the World Chinese Association. On February 25, 2021, he was awarded the title of "National exemplary individual for Poverty Alleviation" by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. On February 2, 2022, participated in the "Hundred Flowers Welcoming Spring" evening party. In December 2022, participated in the "Setting Sail 2023 New Year's Eve Gala" of China Central Radio and Television Station and released a new song "Sing Happiness"; In January 2023, participated in the CCTV Star Avenue's "Star Night Happy Year" Spring Festival special program and sang the new song "Follow You to Welcome Good Times". On January 29, 2025, participated in the "2025 Hainan Spring Festival Gala".

Performing experience

In 1996, Liu Yuanyuan participated in the performance of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time. On the eve of Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, she sang the song "Flash Bar, Hong Kong". On October 1, 1999, at the 50th National Day fireworks display, Liu Yuanyuan made her first appearance and sang the song "Five Star Red Flag"; In the same year, she won the Contribution Award at the 6th China Art Festival and the Special Award from the Jury of the China Pop Song Chart of the Central People's Broadcasting Station for this song.

In 2000, Liu Yuanyuan won the Chinese Original Music "Art Song Award" with her song "Five Star Red Flag". In 2001, he won the Outstanding Golden Melody Award on the Chinese Original Music Pop Chart for his performance of "Good Luck to You". In August 2002, he released his first solo album "Five Star Red Flag". In 2003, she sang the solo song "Flowers Accompany You" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. On February 11, 2004, the "Liu Yuanyuan Shanghai Solo Concert" was held at the Shanghai Grand Theatre; On April 30th, a solo concert was held at the Great Hall of the People in Haikou, and he was appointed as the "Hainan Music Image Ambassador" by Hainan Province.

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In January 2005, the album "Five Star Red Flag · My Pride Liu Yuanyuan Shanghai Solo Concert" was released; On June 15th, the "Liu Yuanyuan Hometown Love Kunming Large scale Concert" was held in Yunnan. In 2006, Liu Yuanyuan performed the song "Yingshan Hong" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala; On May 25th, the "Five Star Red Flag Cross Strait Love" themed concert was held in Fuzhou. In 2007, he won the National "Five Ones" Project Award for his song "Gratitude".  

In November 2008, won the Top Ten Harmony Contribution Awards for Chinese Women; In December, her performance of "Five Star Red Flag" was selected as one of the 100 classic songs of the 30 years of reform and opening up. In September 2009, she was awarded the Top Ten Outstanding Artistic Achievements Award of the Chinese Soul; On October 1st, at the 60th National Day fireworks display held at the Great Hall of the People, Liu Yuanyuan and Jackie Chan sang the song "Country" together. On April 30, 2010, Liu Yuanyuan, Zhou Huajian, and Mao Amin performed the song "Meet in Shanghai" at the opening ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo; On May 4th, he was awarded the Chinese Youth May Fourth Medal.

On April 8, 2011, the release ceremony of the song "Livelihood" was held at the Great Hall of the People; In May, recorded the theme song "Never Seen You" for the movie "Yang Shanzhou"; On June 18th, participated in the 60th anniversary celebration party of Central University for Nationalities held at the Capital Gymnasium, and sang the song "Country" as an alumnus.

In May 2013, the 9th China International Garden Expo opened in Beijing, and she was invited to sing the theme song of the expo, "A Picture of Heaven and Earth"; In September, Liu Yuanyuan was invited to serve as the image ambassador for the 3rd China Eurasia Expo; On the evening of September 19th, she collaborated with Xu Qianya to sing the song "Mid Autumn Moon" at the 2013 CCTV Mid Autumn Festival Gala on "Meizhou Moon Chinese Love"; In October, she won the Best Vocal Award from the China Radio and Television Association for her song "Gratitude".

In 2014, the Chinese Dream themed work "My Chinese Dream" was released.

In 2017, the song "Take Me Along the Way" was released.

On July 6, 2017, on the eve of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, Liu Yuanyuan held a concert to share the beautiful world at the 100 year old Les Concert Hall in Hamburg. The concert sang classic songs [33], such as "Five Star Red Flag", "The Country", "We Are Brothers and sisters", and sang Chinese stories to the world. This time, Xie Jiacheng, a youth from poverty alleviation in Jinggangshan, the first place in China, was invited to tell the story of his family's poverty alleviation on the spot. His dream was to be a singer, and together with Liu Yuanyuan, he sang "On the wings of singing", and sang Xu Ziqi, a little girl in Hangzhou G20. He also came to the concert to sing the German song Little Boy with Liu Yuanyuan to express the Chinese people's good wishes to the German people. This time, British superstar Russell was also invited Watson and Liu Yuanyuan sang 'I Have a Dream' together.

In 2018, the poverty alleviation theme song "It Has Changed" was launched to promote the national poverty alleviation campaign.

In 2018, the square dance anthem "Singing in the New Era" was released, and the song and MV have accumulated over 1 billion online views.In 2019, poverty alleviation themed songs such as "Let's Be Good Together", "The Most Beautiful Promise", "Singing in the New Era", and "Happy New Era" were once again released for the national poverty alleviation campaign.

On June 26, 2020, I participated in the CCTV-15 music channel's "Folk Songs · China" program and performed the song "Country" on the program "Beautiful China Sings into Lvliang, Shanxi".

In January 2022, participated in the recording of the 2022 Inner Mongolia Radio and Television Spring Festival Gala; On January 26th, participated in the first Chinese Rural Revitalization Spring Festival Gala and the Chinese Lei Feng Volunteer Commendation Conference; In February, participated in the "Hundred Flowers Welcoming Spring" evening party and sang the song "Welcoming Spring Flowers" with Deng Cuiwen and others; On January 30th, I participated in the "2022 Fujian New Year's Joyful Night" event. In 2022, she was awarded the title of "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer" by the All China Women's Federation. On December 31st, participated in the "Sailing 2023- CCTV New Year's Eve Gala" and sang the song "Sing Happiness" with Yun Yun and Shi Peng.

On February 10, 2024, participated in the "2024 Beijing Radio and Television Spring Festival Gala" and performed the song and dance program "Big Play Watching Beijing" with Gina and others at the gala. On February 14th, participated in the "Hemei Rural New Year's Party" and performed the opening song and dance "Celebrating the New Year Across the Country". On September 17th, participated in the "2024 CCTV Mid Autumn Festival Gala" and performed "Bright Moon on the Sea" with Li Hongmei and Gao Ruixuan. On September 22nd, participated in the "2024 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Gala" and sang "The Ballad of Harvest". On December 31st, participated in the "Sailing 2025- CCTV New Year's Eve Gala" and sang the song "National".

On January 24, 2025, participated in the Central Radio and Television Station's 2025 "Beautiful Countryside New Year's Party" and performed "Sing Happiness". On January 29th, participated in the "2025 Hainan Spring Festival Gala" and sang the song "Country" with Yan Jingjie.

public benefit activities

In October 2002, she held her first solo concert in Nanchang and also organized a charity sale for the album "Five Star Red Flag". She donated the proceeds from her performance and charity sale to the Hope Project.

In November 2005, she participated in the first large-scale fundraising event of "Dreams Bloom in the Cold Winter for Flowing Flowers". She not only donated some books, but also presented her latest album "Love Forever" to 200 schools for migrant children.  

On July 1, 2007, she held a large-scale charity concert called "Five Star Red Flag Fluttering High" in the auditorium of the Great Hall of the People. In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, she donated 110000 yuan to the disaster area.

In October 2011, she led the United Nations' "Sky Repair Action" delegation to Maldives for a four-day environmental art exchange.

In 2012, Liu Yuanyuan's public welfare music class visited several primary and secondary schools, including Fushun Leifeng Primary School, Beijing Fangcaodi Primary School, Chengdu Supo Primary School, and Xinjiang 66 Middle School.

Since 1999, Liu Yuanyuan has sponsored 205 children from impoverished areas. In addition to holding charity concerts and music classes in Xinjiang, Guizhou, Gansu, Liaoning, Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Tianjin, and other places, she has also donated funds to impoverished schools to donate cultural palaces, piano, electronic keyboard, drums, harmonica and other musical instruments, donated learning supplies, subsidized tuition fees for extremely poor students, and provided spiritual and material assistance to children in impoverished mountainous areas, left behind children, and elderly people living alone.  

In 2016, the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office, in consultation with relevant departments, agreed to hire Liu Yuanyuan as the first and only "China Poverty Alleviation Propaganda Ambassador" in the country to assist in poverty alleviation efforts.

Character evaluation

Liu Yuanyuan is known as the "Red Flag Singer", and her songs are mostly about singing about the motherland, the people, and a better life (evaluated by Sina). Her voice is quite broad and has its own unique qualities (evaluated by Guan Mucun). She uses mixed sounds very well; The sound above and below is relatively uniform: the sound above is bright, the middle area is close to normal, and the bass area is very natural; She speaks clearly, especially in handling emotions very accurately (evaluated by Jin Tielin).

Liu Yuanyuan integrates ethnic, bel canto, and popular singing techniques. Through the influence of ethnic art, professional training, and personal diligent practice, she has formed a rounded, soft, and beautiful singing style, which is in stark contrast to singers who blindly imitate others and lack individuality (evaluated by the Literature and Art Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department).