''Win in China'' () is a national

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show in China. The show airs on

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on Tuesday nights to a core audience of 20,000,000, and through re- broadcast,

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, and

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has an extended audience of nearly 200,000,000. The premise of the show is

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s competing for investment into their projects and/or companies. The emcee of the show, Wang Lifen, is also the

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. The judging panel includes major industry figures, including

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of Alibaba Group and Hugo Xiong of IDG Venture Capital. 2008 was the third season of ''Win in China''. A record 150,000 entrepreneurs applied to compete. Both the winner and runner-up were women (Xie Li and Zeng Hua), a first for the program. 2008 also saw the entertaining participation of American Henry Winter (文亨利), the first foreigner to ever appear on the program. Winter, who finished 10th overall, proposed to his girlfriend on the show. ''Win in China'' has also produced a successful line of books and DVDs aggregating various judges' words of wisdom.

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