"News radar" Cao Jingxing died Netizens remember his "scholar's style, the model of the walker"

Cover news reporter Yang Fan

In the early morning of February 11, Cao Jingxing, a well-known media person, died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 75. Phoenix TV's "Threesome" is one of the oldest "talk shows" in China, and Cao Jingxing is the planner of this talk show. Cao Jingxing's good friend and visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, Xu Zidong, said that "Threesome" is widely loved by readers, but many people do not know that Cao Jingxing is the earliest planner of the show. "I always remember him saying, "'The point of this show is not what is said, but the way it is spoken.'" ’”

Cao Jingxing (According to the surging news)

Cao Jingxing's last Weibo post, published on Feb. 7, was a short video about food. Many netizens have left messages under this microblog to express their condolences, netizen Jasonfly77 said: "More than twenty years ago, I watched Cao Lao Phoenix Satellite TV comment on the changes in the world, and then I met him on Weibo to talk about 'Lao Cao gossiping about Shanghai', and after learning that Cao Lao was seriously ill, he was not very worried, and when he saw that he was still updating Weibo, he was slightly happy, and mistakenly thought that everything was healthy, and today he heard the bad news, and said goodbye." Netizen Jin Chao 1976 commented that Cao Jingxing is: the wind of scholars, the model of walkers.

Cao Jingxing was born in Shanghai in 1947. His father was the famous journalist and writer Cao Juren, and his sister was the actor Cao Lei. From 1968, he joined the team in the mountainous area of southern Anhui for 10 years. In 1978, Professor Jin Guangyao of the Department of History of Fudan University and Cao Jingxing were jointly admitted to the Department of History of Fudan University. Jin Guangyao said: "Not only is he older than us, Cao Jingxing is particularly strong in all aspects of his study and life, so we call him 'old guy' behind his back, and he also accepts it calmly."

In 1982, Cao Jing traveled to the Institute of World Economics of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences to study the U.S. economy. In 1989, he was hired as a writer for Asia Weekly, became deputy editor-in-chief in 1994, and then served as the chief writer of Ming Pao, writing editorials and reviews. In 1997, Cao Jingxing switched to television and became the editor-in-chief of The Zhongtian News Channel of Hong Kong Communications Television.

In 1998, he joined Phoenix TV and served as the deputy director of Phoenix TV Information Station and the director of the speech department. Since February 2009, Cao Jingxing has been commenting on domestic and foreign current affairs news daily in the morning prime time of the Voice of China, the news comprehensive frequency of the Central People's Radio. After his retirement, he returned to Shanghai to settle down, but he continued to work as a news commentator and shuttled between the two sides of the strait, presiding over a column on cross-strait news.

Cao Jingxing has loved journalism all his life. Dou Wentao, the host of Phoenix TV, called it a "news radar" and described Cao Jingxing as "getting up in the morning, staring at the TV news, listening to the radio broadcast with his ears, and flipping through the seven or eight newspapers of the day."

More than a decade ago, the white-haired Cao Jingxing was still like a young man, tirelessly engaged in the reporting of the national "two sessions". In 2006, he serialized his photographic collection "Phoenix in the Aperture" in the Xinmin Evening News under the title of "Cao Jingxing and the Eight Years of the Phoenix", and he also opened a commentary column on Xinmin Network "Old Cao Says the World". In 2015, 70 years after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cao Jingxing cooperated in the Shanghai Documentary Channel to shoot the 70th anniversary of the Anti-Japanese War commemorative feature film "Walking the Battlefield". In addition to "The Phoenix in the Aperture", Cao Jingxing has also written books such as "Ten Years of Hong Kong".

At the age of 73, Cao Jingxing fell ill with cancer, but soon after the operation, he returned to the streets to do shows. In addition, his obsession with the history of the War of Resistance was no less than his love of journalism. Cao Jingxing once said that his father was not only a journalist, but also a historian, and his vision, ideas, and sense of mission prompted him to review the historical materials as a historian a hundred years later when compiling the historical materials of the War of Resistance, striving to be fair and true, to be worthy of the soldiers on the battlefield, and even more worthy of the next generation of readers. This is also what Cao Jingxing has been doing.

The famous host Cao Kefan heard the news and expressed his reluctance about Cao Jingxing's death: "Mr. Jingxing cares about a new generation of news practitioners, and every year he will meet with some moderators in various fields to share news work experience, solve doubts and puzzles for young people, and point out confusion. In addition to journalism work, Mr. Cao Jingxing and his sister Ms. Cao Lei worked together to sort out the manuscript of his father, Mr. Cao Juren, and the contribution was great! ”