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Qiyuan Sun

Issue 01Reporter’s Archive

Qiyuan (Aimee) Sun

Stories beginwith paying attention.

I write about people, technology and the changing world around them, in English and in Chinese. That has meant clean-energy and carbon-market stories for a national economic daily, and a short documentary about Alzheimer’s disease and the families who live with it.

The record

Education

  • Rutgers University-New Brunswick2025-2028Journalism and Media Studies, Computer Science, Data Science
  • Communication University of China2023-2025International Journalism and Communication

Media experience

  • Public Relations InternJul-Sep 2024Tencent (WeSure) · Shenzhen
  • Intern JournalistJan-Mar 2024Xinhua News Agency, Economic Information Daily · Beijing · 10 published reports, one on the front page
  • Media InternRenmin University of China · Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies

No. 01Featured project

Film still of a young woman at the exhibition pointing to an Alzheimer’s disease display beside a screen showing a life-size digital presenter
At the exhibition, in front of a display about the digital prevention and control of Alzheimer’s disease.Film still, Memory Guardians

Short documentary · 2024

Memory Guardians

How technology can make cognitive care more human.

With Yiyang Xue, I set out to understand what a small mobile game, a language model and a science exhibition could tell us about living with Alzheimer’s, and to explain it to viewers outside China.

Grand Prize, Beijing, 2024 Higher Education Press Cup “Telling China’s Stories in Foreign Languages” short video competition

Watch the film and read the case study

No. 02Selected Stories

Published reporting

From my internship at Economic Information Daily, Xinhua News Agency’s national economic newspaper, in Beijing, January to March 2024.

The full Story Index →
Reported & Written

China General Nuclear Power Surpasses 100 GW of Installed Clean-Energy Capacity

Economic Information Daily (Xinhua News Agency)

A year-end look at one of China’s largest state energy groups as its nuclear, wind, solar and storage capacity crossed 100 gigawatts. The piece follows where that power comes from: 27 operating reactors, 11 more under construction using the domestically developed Hualong One design, and new offshore wind and solar projects along the coast.

Read the notes on this story
  1. Environment & Energy

    China’s Carbon Market Moves Toward Expansion

    As China’s national carbon market entered its third compliance period, this report explains what was changing: the restart of the voluntary emissions-reduction market after nearly seven years, new national regulations taking effect in May 2024, and the cement and electrolytic-aluminum industries preparing to join.

    Interviewed / Reporting Contribution

  2. Technology & Science

    A New High-Level Data Science Research Institute Takes Shape

    China Electronics opened a research institute for data science and intelligent engineering in Beijing. The report covers what the institute is meant to do, how its academic committee will guide research, and why data has become a strategic resource in China’s digital economy.

    Reported & Written

  3. Society & Culture

    A Warm Economy in a Cold Winter: Hot Springs Find New Ways to Draw Visitors

    A short video about how China’s hot-spring businesses courted winter travelers. It pairs street-level footage with data on where these businesses are concentrated. My portfolio records my role as interviewing and writing, and lists this among the videos I interviewed for and edited during the internship.

    Video Reporting

No. 03Editorial Craft

How a page reaches a reader

Campus writing about accessibility and community, and the committee guides, posters and badges I edited and designed for a student Model United Nations conference.

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Two kinds of work

Words & Community

Editorial Systems & Visual Design

Phone screenshot of an English-language committee guide with justified body text inside a thin violet frame and a ‘Further information’ link

World Media Summit Committee Guide

Blue conference poster with a table listing committees, topics and working languages, and two QR codes

Conference Poster

Three conference badges in green, blue and red faceted backgrounds, each reading Main Press Center dais with a name and the conference emblem

Dais Badges

No. 04About

I started in a newsroom. I’m now learning how the tools that carry stories are built.

I studied international journalism in Beijing and reported for Xinhua’s Economic Information Daily. At Rutgers I study journalism alongside computer science and data science, because I want to understand how stories reach people, not only how they are written.

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