青山周平 SHUHEI AOYAMA

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR ARCHITECT OF B.L.U.E. ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

Shuhei Aoyama is the Director of B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio, which he founded in 2014 in Beijing. His main representative works include Zolaism Café, 1402 Coffee, Tang Hotel, % Arabica Coffee, Kuanzhai Alley and BAN Villa. Shuhei Aoyama's outstanding works have received recognition from prestigious global awards, exemplified by his company B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio's accolades such as the Architizer A+Awards, Architecture MasterPrize and Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. He has also been rated as ‘Model Young Designer of the Year’ by Beijing Youth Weekly in 2017. That same year, he was named among the '40 under 40 - Chinese Outstanding Young Designers' and recognized as the '2017 Best International Entrepreneur of the Year - Yicai Brilliant 20'.

Fang Wang

Executive Editor, Shanghai, FORTUNE China

Wang Fang is Executive Editor, Shanghai, of Fortune China.Before joining Fortune in March 2021, she spent 18 years at the Financial Times, holding multiple roles including online news editor (New York City), multimedia producer (London), and senior duty editor of the FT’s Chinese website (Beijing).Fang graduated from New York University in 2003 with an MA degree in business and economic reporting.She received her BA degree in journalism from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1999. Between 1999 and 2001 she was a technology industry reporter at Shanghai Daily.