1. Gold Medal Docent Fang Bo
Born and raised in Beijing, Fang Bo has a special affection for this city. With Beijing's cultural relics and historical heritage as the carrier, based on the correct conception of history and accurate and detailed historical data, he tells a large number of tourists about the view of "China's great history" in a humorous way. As history is the memory of a nation, Fang Bo is willing to be the narrator of "memory" for every tourist, tell more tourists about Beijing, and the great history of China and strive to be the “golden name card” of Beijing's tourism industry.
Gold Medal Docent Fang Bo
Contributions to and Awards Received in the Industry
●Awarded the title of "Beijing Tour Guide Star" by Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development in 2015
● Awarded the title of "China Good Tour Guide" by the National Tourism Administration in 2015
● Awarded the title of “Advanced Individual” at the 15th "Capital Tourism Zijin Cup" in 2016
●Awarded the title of “Beijing Tour Guide Star” by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development in 2017
● Won a gold medal at the 3rd National Tour Guide Competition in 2017
● Awarded the honorary title of "National Youth Professional Expert" in 2018
● Awarded the honorary title of "Beijing Role Model" in 2018
2. Gold Medal Docent Xiao Zhen
Xiao Zhen is a university professor who specializes in tourism management. At the same time, he is also a professional trainer of tour guides. In recent years, Professor Xiao has devoted himself to the perfect combination of tour guide and teacher into a study tour counselor. As a Beijing native, he not only likes to take students to appreciate the splendor of imperial buildings such as the Palace Museum, the Summer Palace, and Prince Kung's Palace Museum but also is willing to travel, view, and explore museums and former residences of celebrities according to the study schedule and teaching materials of students. Xiao Zhen makes use of his profound knowledge and humorous language to enrich students' minds and stimulate their thirst for knowledge.
Gold Medal Docent Xiao Zhen
3. Docent Song Tiegang
Song Tiegang is a Beijing native, born in the 1970s, and has been a Communist Party member with over 20 years of standing. After working for 17 years at Shougang Group, Song Tiegang decided to change his career to become an honorable tour guide and won a silver medal in the Beijing Tour Guide Competition in 2018. Song Tiegang's zeal for the profession of tour guide lies in the mountains and rivers, but the imperial garden - the Summer Palace has occupied a large amount of his time and energy. The beauty of the scenery here makes people stop their steps and the vicissitudes of history arouses people's deep thoughts. Being considerate and thoughtful, Song Tiegang always explains the profound history in simple terms which is easy to understand. The Summer Palace is not only a beautiful and elegant garden with romantic scenery but also a place bearing witness of the painful modern history of China. Giving him 180 minutes, he is able to represent a complete Summer Palace to you and your family.
Docent Song Tiegang
Contributions to and Awards Received in the Industry
● Won a silver award at the 8th Beijing Tour Guide Competition
● Awarded the Certificate of Completion at the National Ice and Snow Tourism Talent Training Base in 2018
● Awarded the Certificate of the First Pilot Class of the National Tour Guide Professional Skill Research and Training Program (Beijing)
● Awarded the title of "Beijing Tour Guide Star" by Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development in 2018
● "Song Tiegang Beijing Tour Guide Studio", a tour guide branch of Beijing Tourism Industry Association, was established in 2017
● Awarded the title of "Outstanding Tour Guide" by the China Association of Travel Services in 2019
4. Gold Medal Docent Liu Jingping
Liu Jingping, courtesy name "Zicheng", pseudonym "Chuandao Jushi", who loves culture and tourism since he was young, is now the Director of the Department of Tourism Management of Shougang Institute of Technology. When he was a child, he visited the Ming Tombs and was so fascinated by the guidebook that he wouldn’t put it down. He was specialized in art in his twenties and resolutely came back to China from Australia after receiving a master's degree. Then he has fully devoted himself to the teaching and dissemination of Chinese culture. Liu Jingping is good at presenting the Palace Museum/the Summer Palace for family tours and study tours. From a "multi-disciplinary perspective", Liu is able to interpret the cultural connotation of the Palace Museum, including knowledge of physics, ancient astronomy, philosophy, horticulture, architecture, historical geography, history, mathematics, art, modern management, economics, ancient architecture, color painting restoration, and other disciplines.
Gold Medal Docent Liu Jingping
Contributions to and Awards Received in the Industry
●Master's degree from Australia's Deakin University, university professor and scholar of garden culture
● Research fields: Chinese tourism culture, garden culture, Buddhist culture
● National Gold Medal Tour Guide, Senior Tour Guide
● Director of Beijing Tourism Industry Association, guest of Beijing Traffic Radio, judge of Beijing Tour Guide Competition, and National Outstanding Tour Guide
5. Docent Zhang Jiasheng
Zhang Jiasheng, a “National Senior Tour Guide”, joined the tour guide business in the 1990s and has been working in this industry for 28 years so far. In the past three decades, Zhang Jiasheng has not stopped studying and exploring the history of Ming and Qing dynasties, imperial architecture, and Buddhist culture. He has taken Buddhist groups to India, Nepal, and other places for more than 40 times, and has been to Tibet several times. Based on his study of the history of Qing dynasty, Zhang Jiasheng has had a clearer understanding of Tibetan Buddhist culture, the Palace Museum, the Summer Palace, the Yonghe Lama Temple, and the Temple of Heaven. Do you want to get to know the Yonghe Lama Temple from the perspective of Mr. Zhang? Then join “companion guide” Zhang Jiasheng to visit the temple together.
Docent Zhang Jiasheng
Contributions to and Awards Received in the Industry:
● Awarded the title of Advanced Worker at the Competition of“Striving for the Highest Record" in 1992
● Awarded the title of“Best Tour Guide” by Capital Travel Service in 1993
●"Zhang Jiasheng Beijing Tour Guide Studio", a tour guide branch of Beijing Tourism Industry Association, was established in 2018
● Awarded the title of "Outstanding Tour Guide" by the China Association of Travel Services in 2019
6. Docent Xing Jianjin
Graduated from the history department and served in the military for 6 years, Xing Jianjin is a knowledgeable, gentle, and enthusiastic person. His style of narration is vivid and humorous. His narration always makes the tourists feel that they are totally immersed in the scene. He not only has rich professional knowledge but also is very good at "acting". His words and gestures make people feel that he is in a state of acting all the time. If you follow Xing Jianjin to tour around the Palace Museum, you will definitely be taken into the“play created by him. Because of this profound feeling of immersion, you might really imagine that you are traveling back to the place where the historical events happened hundreds of years ago.
Docent Xing Jianjin
Contributions to and Awards Received in the Industry:
●"Xing Jianjin Beijing Tour Guide Studio", a tour guide branch of Beijing Tourism Industry Association, was established in 2017
● Awarded the title of“Outstanding Tour Guide” by the China Association of Travel Services in 2019
7. Gold Medal Docent Cao Zhenshuo
Cao Zhenshuo is a professional tour guide who has been working in this industry for 12 years. He attaches great importance to and devotes himself to promoting the healthy development of the tour guide profession, and takes the career of working as a docent at the Palace Museum as his lifelong goal. In the eyes of the tourists, Cao Zhenshuo is an enthusiastic, cheerful, and helpful person. He is a National Gold Medal Tour Guide who enjoys studying Beijing's traditional food, beverage, and entertainment. He has been to 28 countries and won gold medals in the Beijing Regional Tour Guide Competition and the National Tour Guide Competition in one year without interrupting his own job. Cao Zhenshuo's tour guiding principle is to“guide a tourist group like creating a piece of artwork and provide the customers with unprecedented joyful experience”.
Gold Medal Docent Cao Zhenshuo
Contributions to and Awards Received in the Industry:
● Awarded the title of "Top Gold Medal Tour Guide" for 5 consecutive years from 2008 to 2014
● Awarded the title of "Beijing Tour Leader Star" by Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development in 2016
● Awarded the honorary title of "National Tour Guide Master Studio" in September 2017
● Selected into the "National Gold Medal Tour Guide" Talent Program of the National Tourism Administration in December 2017
● Won a gold medal at the 2018 Beijing Tour Guide Competition
● Won the champion of the 4th National Tour Guide Competition in 2019
8. Gold Medal Docent Ye Liyang
Ye Liyang is a senior tour guide who passed the Test for English Majors–Band 8 (TEM-8). He worked as the leader of outbound tourist groups for many times, used to be an English teacher training tourist group leaders, and served as a volunteer Chinese teacher at the Confucius Institute of Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. He not only has profound experiences but also traveled to various European countries in his free time after work, perceiving the great changes brought about by diversified cultures to his spiritual world, which also adds more breadth to the contents of his narration in the future. Ye Liyang believes that a tour guide should not only narrate history and disseminate culture, but also should incorporate what he or she has seen, heard, and felt into the narration, providing foreign tourists with a vivid impression of the charm of integration of different cultures in a humorous way.
Gold Medal Docent Ye Liyang
Contributions to and Awards Received in the Industry:
● Winner of a gold medal at the 9th Beijing Tour Guide Competition
● Bronze Medal Tour Guide at the 4th National Tour Guide Competition
●Awarded the title of "Beijing Tour Leader Star" by Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development in 2018
●Selected into the 2019 "Gold Medal Tour Guide" Talent Training Program of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
● 2019 Beijing Culture and Tourism "Industry Role Model"
● Awarded the title of "Outstanding Tour Guide” by the China Association of Travel Services in 2019
9. Docent: Meng Da
Meng Da, belonging to the “Xiang”-named generation, is a 75th generation descendant of Mencius. Meng Da is a professional tour guide who is devoted to studying the origin and development of old Beijing’s Hutong and has made the research about the historical evolution of Hutong as his lifelong pursuit. He is a docent who enjoys strolling in the 25 sites under historical and cultural protection in Beijing. Meng is a person with an exquisite, gentle, and polite character. Meng Da spent five years traveling through the Hutongs and alleys of Beijing, compiling a dozen books of handwritten notes. In 2017, Meng Da set up the“Meng Da Beijing Tour Guide Studio”, a tour guide branch of Beijing Tourism Industry Association, to promote and inherit Beijing's Hutong culture. He looks forward to visiting Hutongs with you, talking with you about the past and present of Hutongs and the life of ordinary people in Hutongs.
Docent: Meng Da
10. Docent: Wang Renlong
Born in the 1980s, Wang Renlong is a big boy born and raised in Nanluoguxiang of Beijing. He was born with profound familiarity and love to this city. As a Beijing native, he lived in a Hutong in Beijing for many years. He not only has deep feelings for Beijing's imperial city culture but also can talk about the daily life and folk customs of old Beijing with great familiarity. Wang Renlong wants to share more little-known Hutong culture with more tourists and provide all people with a better understanding of the ancient Beijing city so that they can feel about the charm and quintessence of this city with thousand years of history.
Docent: Wang Renlong
11. Docent: Fu Shuling
Fu Shuling is a National Senior Tour Guide, working as a first-line tour guide in Beijing for 16 years. The motto she upholds in her career is "being meticulous and earnest, speaking with concrete contents, and embodying the spirit of tour guide whole-heartedly".
Docent: Fu Shuling
● Technical Skill Master of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
● Role Model for Women in Tourism Industry in the New Era
● Winner of Beijing's March 8 Red-Banner Medal
● Promotion Ambassador for Civilized Tourism of Beijing
● Beijing's "First Tour Guide Star"
12. Docent: Jiang Wei
Jiang Wei has been working in the tour guide industry for nearly 30 years and has won the honorary title of "Gold Medal Tour Guide" many times. With rich working experience and a serious and responsible working attitude, she has all along insisted on the working style of“striving for perfection and being meticulous” and summed up the service mode of“putting people first + personalization” and the tour guiding technique of“principle + flexibility”. Every time she works as a tour guide, Jiang Wei does her best to regulate her own tour guiding conduct, takes the business of tourists as her own business, and serves tourists in a warm and thoughtful way, with an aim to provide tourists with high-quality, high-level, people-oriented and considerate tour guide service.
Docent: Jiang Wei
Contributions to and Awards Received in the Industry:
● Won the Excellence Award at the Beijing Tour Guide Competition in 2019
● Employed by the Women's Federation of Chengde City as the first batch of“Caring Lecturers” at the Women's Health Promotion Service Center
● Awarded the title of "Gold Medal Tour Guide" at the "Dingsheng Wangchao Cup", Chengde City's First "Gold Tour Guide" Competition in 2011
● Awarded the title of “Annual Gold Medal Tour Guide" in 2011
● Won the Best Literary Expression Prize at the“Shenli Tour Guide Presentation” Solicitation Contest in 2012
● Won a place in "Chengde Daily", and commended and awarded the titles of "Gold Medal Service Person" and "Gold Medal Tour Guide" by the government in 2012
● Awarded the title of "Shuangqiao Good Person" by Shuangqiao District of Chengde City in 2015