The Most Famed Anchorwoman of China

-Yang Lan

  Yang Lan, born in 1968 in Beijing, who holds a master's degree from Columbia  University in the United States, is one of China's 50 most successful entrepreneurs and probably China's wealthiest self-made woman.
  杨澜，1968年生于北京，美国哥伦比亚大学硕士学位，是中国五十位最成功的女企业家和最富有的白手起家的女士之一。

  Yang Lan was 21 in her last year at the Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1990 when she auditioned for – and won -- the position of host of the Zheng Da variety show on China Central Television. Within a year Zheng Da, a prime-time-Saturday celebrity quiz and talk show, was China's top-rated TV program, with an audience of 220 million.
  1990年，杨澜在北京外语学院赢得了担任中央电视台《正大综艺》节目主持人的资格，当时她年仅21岁。在《正大综艺》的一年里，她主持的黄金时间周六的名人问答和脱口秀，是中国收视率最高的电视节目，达到220百万人次。

  Despite her celebrity, Yang Lan quit the show after four years to go to New York where she spent two years earning a master's degree at Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs.
  虽然她取得如此好的成就，但是杨澜在四年之后仍然选择离开这个脱口秀节目去了纽约，在纽约她用了两年时间获取了哥伦比亚大学的国际与公众学院硕士学位。

  Yang's TV skills are matched by a keen mind for business. In 1999, with her husband, Bruno Wu Zheng, she started her own media company, Sun Television Cyber networks (Sun TV). Traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange since last April, Sun TV was valued at $179 million on Nov. 3. Yang owns 35%, worth $63 million. 
  杨澜除了在电视主持方面出人一等外，她敏锐的商业头脑使她杨明远外。 1999年，她与丈夫吴征开始了创办自己的媒体公司—阳光文化影视公司（阳光卫视）。公司于2002年4月份在香港上市，据11月3号的数据估计，阳光卫视价值1.79亿美元，其中杨澜拥有35％的股份，价值6300万美元.

  Yang's mother was an engineer, and her father taught English literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University and sometimes served as the official translator for former Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. 
  杨澜的母亲是一名工程师，父亲是北京外国语大学的一名英语文学教师，有时为中国前总理周恩来担任官方翻译。 

  Yang Lan was appointed one of the image ambassadors of Beijing in its 2008 bid in January, joining Deng Yaping and two other Chinese women to be so honored: Gong Li, the film actress, and Sang Lan, the gymnast who was paralyzed in 1998 as she represented China at the Goodwill Game in the United States. (Source: China.org.cn)
  2008年1月，杨澜被任命为北京申办奥运形象大使之一，获此殊荣的其他三位中国女性依次是：邓亚萍，中国著名电影演员巩俐，以及代表中国参加1998年美国友好运动会时不幸受伤残疾的桑兰。