Rong Xiaoqing is a reporter for the Chinese language newspaper Sing Tao Daily, covering various stories from health issues, immigration affairs, politics to business and social services. She also contributes to some English language publications in the U.S. and in Asia, such as the New York Daily News, The New York Times, the New York Magazine, and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She worked previously for City Limits, a grassroots English language magazine in New York, covered nonprofit organizations. Her story won the coveted National Ethnic Media Award from the New America Media in 2009. She is also a recipient of several Ippies awards, an award to New York local ethnic media journalists, issued by the New York Community Media Alliance. Rong holds a Master’s degree in business journalism from Baruch College/CUNY and a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese language and literature from Nanjing University in China.