Li Ruohong-Advocate of Peace and Health

LI Ruohong is founder of the King's Water Garden Villas, golfing ace of real estate circles and a peace emissary of business circles. The annual CBD and Great Wall Cup tournaments organized by him for the past five years constitute a platform of communication between the government and foreign entrepreneurs.     

Jin Xing-Choreographer Extr aordinaire

CHOREOGRAPHER Jin Xing is famous in China for more than her professional talents. She was once u he. When in the early 1990s the star was making waves among Chinese dance circles, Jin shocked the nation by having a sex change. Though this was then regarded as unacceptable or even immoral to most Chinese. Jin undauntedly proceeded with her career. She founded the Jin Xing Modern Dance Theater, the only private dancing troupe in China. Last March the controversial but nonetheless successful artist found herself in the limelight once again when she hosted Shanghai Dance 2006, the international dance festival that she describes as a "physical interpretation of culture." During the festival, she and her company presented their latest act, Shanghai Beauty.