On August 25, Xu Li, the anchor of CCTV's Chinese International Channel (CCTV-4), announced her retirement in a social media post, saying: "Tonight (August 25) will be the last live news broadcast of my career. ”
At the end of the "Today's Attention" program, Xu Li waved goodbye to the audience.
For Xu Li's farewell to the broadcast station, netizens have expressed their reluctance and congratulated her on entering a new stage of life.
Xu Li, born on August 2, 1961 in Linxiang, Hunan Province, graduated from Hunan Radio and Television University majoring in Chinese Language and Literature, and is the host of CCTV Chinese International Channel.
Xu Li was transferred to Changsha Television station in 1986. On October 1, 1992, CCTV International Channel was launched, and Xu Li appeared on CCTV as the first anchor of the first program "China News". Since then, he has been working as an anchor for China News.
At that time, the live coverage of almost all major news events on CCTV International Channel was hosted by Xu Li, such as the early celebration of the return of Hong Kong, the celebration of the return of Macao, the "9.11" attacks, the Iraq war, and the report of China's accession to the WTO.
Over the years, Xu Li's concise and capable news broadcasting style has won the love of a wide audience, and she has also become an iconic figure in CCTV Four and China News.
In 2006, Xu Li released a personal essay about her experience of broadcasting the Iraq War live in March 2003, the first live TV interview on CCTV.
Xu Li said in the book that because her tone seemed too serious when hosting the show, she had been questioned by many viewers, believing that she "paid too much attention to her own image throughout the broadcast, and in questioning experts, she was like a primary school teacher interrogating primary school students." The leader also solemnly warned Xu Li: "You must step yourself back a little." ”
In the past 25 years, Xu Li has been strongly questioned by the audience for the first time. For the week that followed, she was nervous in front of the camera every day, and the number of errors caused by the tension increased so much that her heart would beat wildly when the news was broadcast. One night when I came home from work at three o'clock in the morning, Xu Li recalled: "I couldn't sleep, and I asked myself in my heart: Do you still have the courage to do it?" Can you really stick with it? At that moment, I did think of giving up. ”
It turns out that Xu Li did not give up and insisted all the way.
She recalled that nearly fifty days before and after the Iraq war report, testing her not only physical strength and intelligence, but also willpower. "No one knows what happened in my heart," Xu Li wrote, "I don't want to hide it, and the only thing I am satisfied with is my willpower for reporting this war." I was vulnerable, really vulnerable, but I defeated myself with my willpower, and the war didn't let me this woman walk away, and in the end I won myself. Source: Beijing Evening News, City Express