National First-Class Director. Former Vice Chairman of the China Film Association and President of the China Film Directors' Guild. Currently Vice Chairman of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chairman of the Beijing Film Association. In 2005, he was awarded the title of National Film Artist with Outstanding Contributions by the Ministry of Personnel. He has directed 16 films including The Black Cannon Incident, Back to Back, Face to Face, and The Founding of a Republic, winning numerous awards. He has won the Best Director award at the Golden Rooster Awards and the Huabiao Awards, and the Outstanding Contribution Director award from the China Film Directors' Guild; as well as the Best Screenplay award at the Golden Rooster Awards, the Huabiao Awards, and the Shanghai International Film Festival. He has produced over 60 critically and commercially successful films including The Taking of Tiger Mountain, Operation Mekong, My People, My Country, and The Battle at Lake Changjin.