:Hu Shuli

Hu Shuli was born in Beijing. Her grandfather, Hu Zhongchi, was a translator and editor at Shen Bao and his older brother Hu Yuzhi (1896–1986), "an early proponent of language reform, the use of Esperanto, and realism in literature," was involved in editing and publishing.Kirk A. Denton, Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945 (Stanford University Press, 1996: {{ISBN|0-8047-2559-4}}), p. 500. Her mother, Hu Lingsheng, was a senior editor at Workers' Daily. Her father, Cao Qifeng, had a midlevel post in a trade union. Hu also has an older sister named Cao Zuoya (曹佐雅), who studied in San Diego State University.{{Cite web |title=胡愈之与春晖，上虞新闻网，2010-03-22 |url=http://synews.zjol.com.cn/synews/system/2010/03/22/011948902.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302125117/http://synews.zjol.com.cn/synews/system/2010/03/22/011948902.shtml |archive-date=2020-03-02 |access-date=2015-03-30 |url-status=live}}

Hu Shuli attended Beijing's prestigious 101 Middle School. When college classes resumed in 1978, she won entrance to the Renmin University of China (People's University of China), from which she graduated in journalism in 1982. She studied development economics as a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1994. In 2002, she earned an EMBA through a joint program between Fordham University and the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University.

Before Caijing, she was working as assistant editor, reporter and international editor at the Worker's Daily, China's second largest newspaper. She joined China Business Times in 1992 as international editor and became chief reporter in 1995, resigning in 1998 to start Caijing. In addition, Hu served as financial news chief for Phoenix TV in 2001.

She is author of several books, including New Financial Time, Reform Bears No Romance and The Scenes Behind American Newspapers.{{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_27/b3739042.htm |title=The Stars of Asia |author=Clifford, Mark L. |date=2 July 2001 |work=BusinessWeek |accessdate=2010-01-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115152422/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_27/b3739042.htm |archivedate=15 January 2010 }}

She was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 1994.{{cite web|title=China's Changing Media Landscape |url=http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/media/|work=China's Media Landscape}} She was awarded the 2003 International Editor of the Year by the World Press Review{{cite press release |url=http://www.worldpress.org/award2003.cfm |year=2003 |publisher=Worldpress.org |accessdate=2010-01-14}} and the 2007 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.{{cite press release |url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/Awards/AwardsAtAGlance/LouisLyonsAwardForConscienceAndIntegrityInJournalism/Winners/HuShuli.aspx |publisher=Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard |accessdate=2010-01-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112025446/http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/Awards/AwardsAtAGlance/LouisLyonsAwardForConscienceAndIntegrityInJournalism/Winners/HuShuli.aspx |archivedate=2010-01-12 |title=Nieman Foundation | Awards | Awards at a Glance | Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism | Winners | Hu Shuli }}{{cite web |date=June 2008 |title=The Top 100 Public Intellectuals--the Final Rankings |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4379 |accessdate=2010-01-14 |work=Foreign Policy}}

She was the founder of Caijing magazine in 1998. In November 2009, Hu Shuli resigned from Caijing along with 90 percent of Caijing's journalists, barely a few weeks after the resignation of Daphne Wu Chuanhui and nearly 70 employees from the business department,{{cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-10/14/content_8790938.htm|title=Caijing Magazine rocked by resignations|author=Hu Yinan|date=14 October 2009|work=China Daily|accessdate=2010-01-02}} and created the breakthrough new media group, Caixin Media and acted as editor-in-chief.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/business/global/10mag.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all |title=Editor Departs China Magazine After High-Profile Tussle |author=Ansfield, Jonathan |date=9 November 2009 |work=The New York Times|accessdate=2010-01-02}} Diane Vacca quoted Chinese blogger Hecaitou: "She's got blood on her blade, and her clothing smells of gunpowder.”{{cite web | url=http://womensvoicesforchange.org/journalist-flouts-beijing-part-2-%E2%80%9Cshes-got-blood-on-her-blade-and-her-clothing-smells-of-gunpowder.htm/ | title=Journalist Flouts Beijing, Part 2: "She's got blood on her blade and her clothing smells of gunpowder" | author=Vacca, Diane | date=15 December 2009 | publisher=Women's Voices for Change | accessdate=2010-01-02 | archive-date=2016-03-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025801/http://womensvoicesforchange.org/journalist-flouts-beijing-part-2-%E2%80%9Cshes-got-blood-on-her-blade-and-her-clothing-smells-of-gunpowder.htm | url-status=dead }}

• In 2017, Hu was named one of the World's Greatest Leaders by Fortune.{{Cite web |url=http://fortune.com/worlds-greatest-leaders/2017/chance-the-rapper-46/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-03-29 |archive-date=2019-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525181416/http://fortune.com/worlds-greatest-leaders/2017/chance-the-rapper-46/ |url-status=dead }}
• In 2016, She was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Princeton University.{{Cite web | url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2016/05/31/princeton-awards-six-honorary-degrees |title = Princeton awards six honorary degrees}}
• Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2014 and Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 2012.
• Time magazine Top 100 Influential People of 2011,
• Top 100 Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy magazine (2009, 2010)
• The Caixin editorial team under her leadership won the 2011 Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University.
• In 2011, she won Taiwan's Hsing Yun Journalism Award.
• In 2007, she received the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.
• In 2006, Hu was named China's most powerful commentator by the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal cited her as one of Asia's Ten Women to Watch.
• International Editor of the Year by the World Press Review in 2003
• BusinessWeek magazine's Fifty Stars of Asia in 2001.

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• [http://www.makers.com/china/hushuli Hu Shuli] Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUQX8C-pyNQ Highlights from Hu Shuli's Speech at HKU,IMC 2010]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZiFohuGxlA Hu Shuli at European Communication ConferenceSummit 2012]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEQo7vVow48 2014 Ramon Magsaysay Awards] Reading of citation for Ms. Hu Shuli, China, Awardee]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ezamm71L34 Davos 2016 - China's Business Context]

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