She is the first host of "China News" and the first person to wear earrings on the CCTV screen, spoiled by her second husband, why did she not want a child of their own after twenty-six years of remarriage?
August 25, 2021. Xu Li ushered in the last live news broadcast of her career, as the "national face" of CCTV, she has long become an international business card that conveys the voice of China. Twice nodded, once waved, to the CCTV "Golden Voice" legendary story to draw a satisfactory end.
43 years of work, 29 years of live broadcasting in this position, before formally submitting a retirement application, Xu Li had fantasized about countless farewell scenes. But when this day came, she didn't say anything, just nodded her head and nodded at the end of the live broadcast, and found that the camera had not been pushed far, Xu Li subconsciously waved her hand, it was these three actions, let Ni Ping look at it and said that she saw you waving, I was very sad.
It wasn't until she smiled at the camera that people realized that the elegant and beautiful female anchor in front of the screen was sixty years old.
In 1978, at the age of 17, Xu Li received an acceptance notice from Changsha People's Radio and officially began her career as a broadcast host. At the age of 31, Xu Li bid farewell to Changsha and walked into CCTV, and became the foreign news anchor who led the trend at that time. Big waves, wearing suits, even became the first female anchor to wear earrings on the CCTV screen.
Because an overseas friend told Xu Li that if a woman does not wear earrings, it is as ugly as not wearing lipstick. But there is no such precedent in the station, and all female anchors are required to dress neatly and generously, and are not allowed to wear jewelry. When Xu Li's style debuted, it immediately caused quite a stir.
In 1992, CCTV launched the first international news program "China News", and Xu Li, who has strong business ability, became the first host of this program for 29 years. Although the business ability is strong enough, whenever she thinks back to the most terrifying night of her career, Xu Li still feels a palpitation.
On March 26, 2003, Xu Li broadcast the real-time content of the Iraq war as usual, but the war did not make much progress that day, and the synchronization screen that could be cut in did not exceed five minutes in total. And not a single phone had to be connected during that time. Xu Li was extremely broken inside, but still smiled and interviewed the guests as much as possible. From 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Xu Li had a dry mouth and a hard time with the guests for six hours. The huge psychological pressure made Xu Li sleepless all night, and she began to doubt whether her approach was correct.
On August 27, 2021, the official platform of CCTV4 released a collection of footage about Xu Li's career, from a "hello audience friend" in 1992 to a goodbye in 21 years, many people looked at it and cried, because Xu Li is not only a business card of CCTV News, but also a good memory of TV news in the hearts of a generation.
After the live broadcast, Xu Li held flowers in her hand and said tearfully to one interview camera after another, do you want to talk about leaving? It is such a strong stroke in life, naturally it is not willing, but it is going to leave after all, and I will stay up all night
The 21-year-old Xu Li got married and had children, but the young and vigorous two people could not keep the family of three. At the age of 31, Xu Li divorced with her son, and she was determined to draw a line with her past self, so she resigned from the stable job of Changsha TELEVISION station and went to CCTV to work hard.
It is said that a woman's career and family can not be taken into account, but the helpless Xu Li has no choice, she can not take care of her son after being busy in the stage, until now when she mentions Xu Li is full of guilt, thinking that she is not a competent mother. When her son was five years old, Xu Li locked the child in the apartment alone because she was in a hurry to rush to the stage to work, and when she came home, she saw the child curled up and sleeping on the ground, and this single mother who had always been very strong could no longer hold back. She later said, "I did miss the most precious time to grow up with my children because I was too focused on my career. Until the appearance of a man, Xu Li had the courage to fight outside.
In 1994, Xu Li met Zhang Tianwei, a reporter of Beijing Youth Daily, in an interview, and the extremely similar marriage experiences of the two people made Zhang Tianwei very distressed Xu Li.
They talked happily and left contact information for each other, until Zhang Tianwei came to Xu Li's door with a bouquet of roses and a pot of orchids, and the two dared to puncture the last layer of window paper. In Xu Li's autobiography, she also wrote that because she was afraid that her young son would not be able to accept this new family member, she only suggested that her son could call him Daddy Zhang.
Zhang Tianwei took the initiative to assume the responsibility of being a father, he took his children out to play everywhere as soon as he had time, and the long-lost father's love slowly made Zhang's father become a father.
Zhang Tianwei is a gentle and meticulous person, he will take care of Xu Li's mother and son meticulously, will help Xu Li brew a cup of honey water every morning to protect her throat, when the child was seven years old, Xu Li and Zhang Tianwei became a legal couple, and the two people's married life was loving and happy. In her autobiography, Xu Li said that we held hands in the sun and always naturally embraced each other, and she also said that Zhang Tianwei was a grizzly bear-like man, a big face that did not look very approachable, but this man with a rough appearance called her a for decades.
But after twenty-seven years of marriage, he never had another child. Xu Li later said that at that time, there were indeed economic and physiological conditions to have another child, but Zhang Tianwei understood that his wife was in the rising stage of her career, and he was afraid that having another child would delay Xu Li, so he never mentioned this matter. To this day, Xu Li feels that this is a regret.