“Peng Liyuan, as a celebrated singer is the representative of the folk vocal music in China, first ever folk vocal musician with master degree on this art. She is also a young general of the civil service of PLA, member of 8th, 9th and 10th CPPCC, representative of Heroes and Model of PLA and member of China Musician Association, Vice Chairwoman of China National Youth Association and member of China Culture Association. Peng Liyuan's artist virtue has been cherished by the people all over China. Her voice has won most of the recipients. Her flourished songs like On The Land Of Hope, Elder Fellow Villagers, Jomolangma, Spring Rain of The Century have been widely spreaded among the Chinese both at home and abroad. She has also starred in numerous operas. Among them are the White Haired Girl, The Daughter Of The Party, Melancholy Dawn and Poems of Mulan, and wan Plum Blossom Award and the culture award and wan several times the National Cultural Projects Award and China Golden Records Award. The National AV prize, PLA Literature & Art Prize. She is also the winner of Golden Medal in the 25th Word Youth Festival (with the participation of 65 different countries) for ranking the top of the vocal contest. She launched successfully in 1990 solo show in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou in China and in Singapore. More than seventy different countries and regions have seen her shows representing the country. She has played a leading role in promoting the Chinese folk vocal music and songs to the international arena. She has participated the Annual Spring Festival Show enjoyed by the Chinese across the world for 19 years and is recorded as the most frequent participator of the show in the nation.” – Jongo Knows: Encyclopedia of China

“Peng Liyuan (born on November 20, 1962) is one of top Chinese folk singers, and a performer popularized by her regular appearances on the annual CCTV New Year's Gala. She has obtained many honors and top tiles in many top singing competition nationwide. Her most famous works include People from our “Village”, “Mount Everest” and “On the Plains of Hope”. In 2005, her musical opera “Mu Lang poems” earned her an “Outstanding Artist” from the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the U.S.. Peng Liyuan is a member of PLA and obtained the rank of major general, and she was the first one in China to obtain a master's degree in traditional (Chinese) ethnic music when that major was first established in the 1980's.” – Wikipedia.org