Qiu Menghuang (, born 12 December 1968), also known as his stage name A Qiu (), is a Chinese

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and blogger. Qiu Menghuang was born in

Shantou Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative ...

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on 12 December 1968, his parents were both soldiers. Qiu's mother was a Returned

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. He was admitted to Guangxi Teachers Training College (present-day

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), majoring political economy. After his graduation in 1989, he was assigned to Nanning Cotton Textile Printing and Dyeing Factory, as a political cadre of

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. In 1992, he became a playwright in Nanning Art Theater. Qiu joined

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(CCTV) as a television presenter on 21 April, 2003. He had hosted several programs, including ''Society in the News'' (), ''The Elite'' (), and ''Daily stories'' (). In November 2019, there were rumors said that Qiu has been "expelled from CCTV and never be hired again". However, it was denied by him. During the COVID-19 pandemic in China, on 26 February 2020, Qiu posted on

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: "Even though the stereotype of ' sick man of Asia' has been shattered for over a century, can we be more gentle and apologetic in our tone, humbly put on some face masks and give a bow to the world and say 'sorry for the mess'?" The tweet was subsequently deleted, however, many Chinese social media users accused Qiu of "betraying China" and "providing a moral basis for the global anti-Chinese behavior". On 4 March, CCTV announced that Qiu had been "completely banned from hosting shows".

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