Yang Lan Quotes
19 quotes from Yang Lan — Chinese media mogul, journalist, and co-founder of Sun Media Group..
“I call for our society to harness the gender dividend of women, their creativity, their ability of innovation and entrepreneurship.”
“To realize gender equality and harness gender dividend of women, I think we should help them address the work-family dilemma ... and the society should make changes both in terms of policy and concept.”
“Chinese women have been actively engaged in the new economy and it has come to an age for the society to harness the gender revenue from women.”
“Internet-based business innovation and new marketing tools enabled fast and scalable growth which is beyond imagination.”
“The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit.”
“By realizing the full potentials of women and by releasing their creativity and innovation ... there will be positive impact on the world economy.”
“I have the mentality of asking 'why not' instead of just asking why's? … Nobody has done this before, let me do it. You know, why not?”
“In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard.”
“I try to remain optimistic. How did you beat out those 1,000 other contestants for your first TV show?”
“Women make up more than half of the professionals in media, many as leading anchors, producers, publishers, and senior executives.”
“The internet, especially mobile internet and social media, has become the main channel of news and entertainment.”
“Conventional journalism is being eroded by more fragmented information and opinionated commentaries.”
“Fake news and sensational presentations have lowered the authenticity and depth of news stories.”
“The tightening of media controls is also pushing them away from hard news reporting.”
“For two decades now, the Chinese middle class has been busy making money. They watched entertainment and sports; much of the rest they ignored. But now there is a lot of confusion about values, about direction, about what we want out of life.”
“Why do you want to find an innocent type television hostess? What we lack is capable and experienced professional women!”
“For years, state media set the themes, saying that the people should change. Now, in the younger generation, they want to find out for themselves what choices they have. They want to find inspiration.”
“I'm not very comfortable about the power thing because power used to describe the more, you know, male chauvinism kind of value system. I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders.”
“I wanted to establish my own media company which was very difficult. My first motivation was to tell the stories, having women's voices heard to push progress in public policy.”
