some who were not chosen as winners have also been able to enter the recording industry through other means. ji min jia, who ranked fifth overall in the 2005 contest, worked in los angeles in 2006 to help with production of the title song for japanese anime series "the galaxy railways". on march 15, 2007, japanese recording group hello! project announced li chun, one of the top 50 contestants in the 2006 changsha regional, as one of two new members of chinese ancestry of its pop group morning musume.