http://blog.sina.com.cn/hechengjun

He has affluent working experience in Shenzhen Urban Planning Bureau, and he is well-known for his humanistic critiques on architecture, real estate development and urban planning.

http://www.fotocn.org/hehuangyou

A respectable photographer who has devoted himself to the career of photography since the 1950s and who has documented 30-year-long development of Shenzhen that represents the flourish and hardship in first years of reform and opening-up progress. He is regarded as the “Father of Shenzhen’s Photography” for his outstanding photography works and contribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsieh_Ying-chun
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2009/tour/taiwan/04_hsieh_ying_chun

Hsieh is a Taiwanese architect and contractor, known for his low-profile approach he takes to various architectural projects, and also a well-known architectural activist creating works that embody the ideals of “sustainable construction”. He is now the director of Atelier-3, mainly living and working in the rural and disaster-affected areas to help with local construction.

Hu Xiangqian is a visual artist whose work takes a critical look at the social, political and municipal issues facing his hometown of Nanting, near Guangzhou. Often incorporating aspects of daily life into his practice, his work transgresses the separation between art and everyday life. At the age of 21, he ran for mayor of Nanting, an absurd act that temporarily energized the political life of a village. More recently he has experimented with issues of race with an ongoing project entitled The Sun (2008) in which he has made it his daily routine to sunbathe for several hours everyday until he becomes a black-skinned man.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/current_fellows/bios/huang.html
http://citystreetbuilding.spaces.live.com

The ex-design-director of Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau, the promoter of public participation in urban planning, and the main pusher behind Shenzhen Biennale. He is now a Loeb Fellow in Harvard University.

The chief-editor of Urban China magazine, Jiang has been working on urban research and experimental study, exploring the interrelationship between design phenomenon and urban dynamic.

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/08/liang-wendao-reporters-vs-policemen/

Leung is a left-wing public intellectual, a well-known host and commentator of Phoenix TV, a celebrity blogger, and he believes that every Chinese has a role to play to bring back the nation’s looted treasures.

http://liy303.tianyablog.com
http://snkc.blog.ifeng.com/

A talented non-governmental historian, influential blog critic, with wide working experiences. He used to serve as civil service worker, journalist and writer. He is specialized in history and politics analysis of Ming dynasty, and has published four books of his personal rethink.

http://www.xiaodongstudio.com/
http://liuxiaodong.artron.net/main.php

A very successful contemporary painter in Lucian Freud /social realist style, Liu is represented in the US by Mary Boone. In 2006, he made a series of paintings addressing the Three Gorges dam.

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/本土行動
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20070322_1.htm

Local Action is an organization in Hong Kong which first appeared in the end of year 2006, fights for democratization in urban planning. Their previous actions include demonstrations, sit-ins, rallies, hunger strikes and guarding piers. By promoting their ideas through their publications, web pages, videos, videos and writings, they’ve received extensive attention.