Editor's Note:
On International Women's Day, we salute the strength of Chinese women! They are the industry leaders and promoters of social progress. Happy International Women’s Day. Who are the women that inspire you?
Tu Youyou discovered a substance called artemisinin, which can be used to treat malaria. She tested the new drug on herself to accelerate its development, and won the 2015 Nobel Prize for her achievement. 
Chen Wei, a Chinese vaccine scientist and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference member, returned back to Wuhan, the virus-hit city, three days after the city went into lockdown, to focus on vaccine development. She leads the research team developing CanSino's recombinant COVID-19 vaccine. Chen Wei was awarded the national honorary title -- "the People's Hero" on Sep 2020. 
Jia Ling started her comedic career in the male-dominated industry and directed her directorial debut "Hi, Mom" to become the second best-selling film ever in China, with 5 billion yuan ($767 million) in ticket sales during the 2021 Spring Festival holidays. The Movie made Jia third in the chart of the world's highest earning independent female directors. 
An influential Chinese blogger with 14.6 Million followers on YouTube channel, whose food and rural life videos have gained praise, posts videos of the amazingly picturesque, simple and elegant side of China's countryside. 
Zhang Guimei, president of the Huaping High School for Girls in Huaping county in Lijiang, Southwest China's Yunnan province. She helped thousands of young girls go to colleges from a remote mountainous region.
Tai Lihua "sung" the national anthem with sign language at 2021’s Two sessions. She is a dancer from China Disabled Art Troupe and performed the iconic Lady Buddha with Thousand Hands during the 2009 Chinese Spring festival Gala.
China’s first female astronaut Liu Yang. In March 2012, she was selected to be part of the flight crew of the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft mission.
