- He was fined $1.2 million for having 3 kids, which violated China's family-planning laws at the time. Two years later, the family planning law was repealed and people are no longer fined.
- Chief director of opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing.
- A former photographer
- Jury president of 2007 Venice Film Festival.
- Attended the Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1993
- Part of China's Fifth Generation of filmmakers, who began making films after the Cultural Revolution. Others from this group include Kaige Chen and Jinzhan Zhang.
- Interviewed in "World Directors in Dialogue" by Bert Cardullo (Scarecrow Press, 2011).
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