Lüqiu Luwei

Who is Lüqiu Luwei?

Lüqiu Luwei, also known as Rose Luqiu Luwei, is a Chinese television journalist and the executive news editor for Phoenix Television . She was the first female reporter to cover the 2001 Afghan war.

Lüqiu entered into No. 2 High School of East China Normal University in 1982, where she worked on the Shanghai Middle school students press corps and later became the head. In 1988, Lüqiu was admitted to Fudan University. On graduation from university, she taught herself accounting and was hired by an accounting company PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 1995, she moved to Hong Kong with her husband and became an interpreter at a television station named Chinese Television Network.

In 1997, she joined Phoenix Television and became one of its first reporters. At Phoenix satellite TV, she interviewed statesmen, such as president Hu Jintao and many foreign leaders in different countries and broadcast on events both at home and abroad. She has been to Europe, America and Asia and interviewed of President Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji and George W. Bush, the former US President.