English name: ADA LAU
Constellation: Sagittarius
Personality: Speak frankly.
Education background: Department of Logistics Engineering, Cornell University
Work experience: Research Department of Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Banking Department of Merrill Lynch Group.
Favorite things: skiing, playing tennis, piano and reading.
Unforgettable thing: When I first arrived in new york, I couldn't understand my classmates' speeches. I cried every night for the first three months.
The first live broadcast: I was so nervous that my palms sweated and my heart beat too fast. My eyes only stare at the subtitles.
Media work is a brand-new challenge for her, and it is also her goal to contact more people and things and learn more new knowledge. She is confident to bring more comprehensive financial information to the audience in this rapidly changing field. At present, the programs hosted include Today's Financial Talk, Fortune Weekly and Phoenix Broadcast on Time.
"I am a very rational person," Liu Fang said simply. "I like to be organized, straightforward and simple." It turns out that Liu Fang is a real Beijinger. After finishing high school in Beijing No.8 Middle School, she traveled across the ocean with her mother and went to Cornell University in the United States. When I first came to Hong Kong, I worked in finance, and later I joined Phoenix TV. Until now, Liu Fang still remembers her difficult experience in the first year in the United States. "I remember it was particularly hard when I first arrived in the United States. Although my English is particularly good among my peers in China, I can't understand a word in America. I didn't understand the homework assigned by the teacher in class. Being a good student at home, she will fail the exam when she comes to America. Naturally competitive and self-respecting, she couldn't accept this reality and cried every day after returning home. Dad, who is far away in Beijing, said distressfully on the other end of the phone, forget it, stop watching, and come back. Liu Fang said: "It was really hard to think about those days. "
Born and unyielding, Liu Fang is bent on suffering. She began to listen to a completely different language and asked her to recite 100 words every day, even when eating. In this way, she took four exams and entered the first-class American university she longed for. During her college years, she went to Goldman Sachs Group, a famous Wall Street investment bank, to do financial research in the computer industry, and participated in many large-scale corporate financing and M&A projects, including China Telecom IPO.
"I went to Wall Street to make money, because it is really hard to study while working in the United States." However, she soon found that 20 hours of overwork every day exhausted her body and mind. "And there is no place to spend money. There are piles of dirty clothes at home, not to mention going shopping. " Finally, one day, when Liu Fang lost her temper at the restaurant because the waiter didn't serve the food in time, she was shocked by her behavior and made up her mind to change her lifestyle.
By chance, Liu Fang, who just retired from the heavy banking industry, was resting at home. She chats with her college classmate, the cousin of Chen Luyu, the host of Phoenix TV. He told Liu Fang that Phoenix TV was looking for a host. This information made Liu Fang heartbroken. Two days later, she went to Phoenix TV to take the exam. The exam topic is to translate a press release on the Korean Peninsula issued by Reuters. Liu Fang, who has studied and lived in the United States for many years, should be familiar with this kind of exam, and her excellent results will soon make her a new member of Phoenix TV. Maybe it's a lack of news training. At first, she was assigned to do some compiling work to cultivate her news consciousness. After groping for a period of time, I was asked to develop as a financial presenter in Taiwan Province because of my learning experience in finance and economics.
Treat guests as teachers and friends.
Now that Liu Fang is hosting the program, she feels a little "walking around". She said: "After accumulating some experience, it feels much better to host the program. Now give me a question. When I close my eyes, I will think of a series of questions to ask. "
Today's Financial Talk is an important talk show hosted by Liu Fang. Invite an economic expert, scholar and professor to the live broadcast room to analyze a topic every day. With experience in financial work, Liu Fang is competent and willing to do this job. She said: "The guests invited every time are very good, which is equivalent to giving me a lesson every time and learning a lot from them." But the experience of interviewing as a reporter for the first time made Liu Fang unforgettable. At the end of 2002, on the eve of the first anniversary of China's accession to the WTO, a conference on global economic outlook and review was held in Shenzhen, attended by US presidential candidate Al Gore. Because of her good English, Liu Fang was sent to the meeting for an interview. Holding the microphone, she squeezed through the encirclement of the big bodyguard. At last Gore heard Liu Fang's cry and stopped to answer her questions politely, but Liu Fang found that the cameraman was stopped outside. Lack of experience made her miss the opportunity, which made her regret immediately.
When she first made the Fortune Week program, due to her inexperience in hosting, she let the guests play freely and did not ask questions in time. She felt that she couldn't control the rhythm of the program, and her family and friends all said that she didn't do well after watching it. Liu Fang felt frustrated for the first time since she entered the business, but she was not discouraged, but seriously thought about her own shortcomings. Someone in Taiwan Province's management sincerely told her that you should be confident and don't feel like a dwarf. This gave her great encouragement and made her realize that doing programs also requires a strong sense of autonomy. From then on, she will no longer ask questions passively, nor will she blindly agree with every point of view just because the guests are experts. She said: "I gradually understand that no matter how professional and authoritative a guest is, sometimes it will be one-sided. I can challenge some of their views and put forward different opinions in a tit-for-tat manner. " Liu Fang feels that she must face up to the pressure, find out the crux of the problem and adjust her mentality. She took the initiative to learn from her experienced peers and always observed carefully, wondering why people used such a tone and such a sentence pattern. In order to improve herself, she should watch her reruns carefully every day after finishing the program, and find out her shortcomings with her heart, hoping to do better tomorrow.