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According to the "Jing Yidan" WeChat official account, on September 13, Jing Yidan's daughter issued an obituary: My dearest mother, the familiar eldest sister Jing, passed away today. On social platforms, Jing Yidan also runs his own personal account, and the avatar of his WeChat official account is still a photo of him when he was a columnist when he was young. Jimu News reporter noticed that the last update of Jing Yidan’s Douyin account was on June 17, and the IP was not displayed because many people were not logged in.
Obituary (Source: Jing Yidan WeChat public account)
Information shows that Jing Yidan was born in 1955, graduated from Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now Communication University of China) in 1986, and later joined CCTV. As a well-known host, Jing Yidan is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people with his calm, intellectual, friendly and insightful style. She has long hosted blockbuster programs such as "Focus Interview", "Oriental Time and Space", and "Moving China", and is a "CCTV face" familiar to generations of Chinese audiences.
Over the years, Jing Yidan has published many works such as "Voice", "I Met You", "That Letter That Year" and "Walk Through".
Jing Yidan and Cai Lei (Source: Jing Yidan’s personal account)
In the video, Jing Yidan wears a mask and holds wheat while visiting Cai Lei, the former vice president of JD.com. The two meet to read "Believe (Updated Edition)" with readers on the summer solstice, and Cai Lei will also meet with netizens online.
However, Jing Yidan did not appear at the joint reading meeting on June 21, but shared it through video.
Jing Yidan is giving a speech (Source: Jing Yidan’s personal account)
Jing Yidan’s WeChat public account also shared his speech at the 2026 graduation ceremony of Peking University HSBC Business School on May 30.
In this speech, Jing Yidan shared his past experience: "Not long after I graduated from graduate school, one day, I was walking on the road in Beijing on a rainy night. I still remember that feeling. The rain overflowed my plastic sandals. I was so excited, as if every raindrop fell on me with joy. Why What? Because just that day, I had just met a group of early pioneers of market economy at a conference. I had never been exposed to those unfamiliar faces, those insights, and those ideas. I had an impulse: I wanted to approach each of them, and I wanted to tell more people their stories."
Jing Yidan said: "When I came out of the venue, I was thinking about it. I have never been in this state before. Because I have been the most traditional announcer in the past, following the script and step by step has become my inertia and my usual state. I often feel that I am serious, but I am being ignored. On this day, I felt my heartbeat. This heartbeat made me clearly understand what attracted me so strongly - it was the strangeness, freshness, recording and communication. I wanted to start from the perspective of a reporter and become a host integrating editing and broadcasting. ”
"It really came true later. Later, I worked in CCTV's "Economic Half Hour" for several years. I matured, became calm, and entered my comfort zone. At this time, "Focus Interview" called to me, and I was immediately moved. Immediately! What attracted me? It was the four words on the "Focus Interview" banner: public opinion supervision." Jing Yidan said that after that, she went straight to the forefront of television and accompanied the "Focus Interview" column for 20 years. When she retired, she looked back on her career and thought that the most valuable thing she had done was amplifying the voices of the weak, spreading the voices of the wise, and advancing the progress of civilization.
Jing Yidan (Source: personal account)
Then, Jing Yidan recalled her experience of "transferring tapes" (turning low tapes into high tapes) when she first came to the TV station. At that time, she thought that graduate students should not do this job, but later she thought about it and readily accepted it. She said that "changing her thoughts" is a good way to adjust herself. In the subsequent "Focus Interview" column, she also changed her thoughts and strengthened her image.
Jing Yidan also revealed that when he was working at a TV station, he met a "famous teacher" for guidance, and later moved to the news commentary department where "Oriental Time and Space", "Focus Interview" and "News Investigation" are located.
In August 2025, Jing Yidan said in an interview with the media: "Actually, I am very slow to accept new things. Fortunately, there are many young people around me, and they are my teachers. I have a trick - usually when I encounter some troublesome technical things that I don't understand, I just save them. When I meet a young person, I quickly ask him for advice on how to solve it. If there are no young people around me, it will be really difficult to solve it by myself."
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