Xiaohua TONG

Current position：Senior Reporter

Entry year and position：

2009-2012 Journalist On Camera Correspondent Station of Phoenix Television in Russia

2012-2016.5, Reporter Correspondent Station of Phoenix Television in Russia

2016. June 1st to so far  Senior Reporter Correspondent Station of Phoenix Television in Shanghai,China

Education Background

2001-2005  Chinese People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts,majoring in vocality

2008-2011  Years of advanced studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music, majoring in vocal music

Prior Experience

After graduating from military school,worked at the PLA Second Artillery 54th Base from July of 2005 to the end of 2007.

Career in Phoenix \Journalism

Reported the“ Closure event of Izzy Milo Market in Moscow” in October 2009.

Contacted and reported of the forest fires raging event in european areas of Russia when 17 states declared the state of emergency in July 2010.

Interviewed with Former Soviet President Gorbachev in March 2010.

From July to September 2012, reported of the detaining event of 10 Chinese fishing boats by the Russian far east frontier army in Nakhodka, which under the pressure and help of the report, all crews were eventually released.

Exclusive access to the the 155 Marines brigade of Russian Pacific Fleet in August, which was for the first time allow media reporter access to the hinterland since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Exclusive interview with former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev

Kept watching at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for one month for the report of Snowden event from June to August, 2013. 

In February 2014, reported the Russian Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Reported the event of the Crimea’s Referendum from March to May,2014.

Reported devaluation of the Russian ruble at the end of the year 2014. 

During the Russian new year 2015, exclusive access to the Russian Watkins nuclear missile development and assembly base.

In March 2016, exclusive access to Dzerzhinsky division which subjected to the Russian Interior Ministry and performed exclusive interview with Alfa Counter-terrorist Special Forces

Awards and achievements

Exclusive report on Chinese fishing boats detaining event by Russia     excellent award

Interviewed in the province of Hama and Palmyra area, belongs to the ISIS-controlled parts of Syria in Dec. 2015 and May 2016. 

Others

During the work in Russia, I interviewed with variety military International Conferences of Russian Defense Ministry, and traveled through all five Russian military regions. Reported a majority of military exclusive news from the Russian Far Eastern command in the east, Pacific Fleet to the enclave of Kaliningrad Baltic Sea fleet in the west, north to the Arctic Moorman Trask Northern Fleet, motorized infantry brigade, Chechnya, Makhachkala in the Black Sea fleet in South.

During the Syrian war of 2014-2016, I gave countless field interviews beyond Syria  covering the war, by went deep into the Russian Lattakia Airforce base in Syria，Russia's Tartus port, witnessing the Russian Air Strike against ISIS, also by walking through the sphere of influence of ISIS, like Aleppo and crossing the Palmyra battle line and so on.

For 7 consecutive years reporting  Russia's red square parade