cheng xi tian is the current chief editor of the "hkcd". cheng was born on 8 february 1941 in shanghai. before he became the chief editor and deputy of the "hkcd", cheng had been the editor of shenzhen publishing group. at present, he is also a part-time professor in renmin university of china (ruc) (中國人民大學) and wuhan university (whu) (武漢大學). he is a graduate from journalism of renmin university of china in 1966 and has been working in the field of journalism for more than thirty years. since he has written a number of newsletters, argumentative writings, reports, biography and prose etc., he was given the title "unique journalist" by deng xiao ping(鄧小平) in 1992. on 26 march 1992, cheng's chinese publication 《东方风来满眼春》 highlighted the success of his career. this publication has won many awards in the press media of mainland china, e.g. "the first award of chinese news" (中國新聞獎一等獎), "special price of guangdong news" (廣東新聞獎特別獎), etc. in 2000, he was awarded the most honorable prize in the press in mainland (韜奮新聞獎).