Mr. Mengwei Chen is a Beijing-based staff journalist with China Daily, the country's first and only official national English newspaper. He holds a Master of Science degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, the Father of Pulitzer Prize.Mengwei mainly covers the underprivileged groups, including people with disabilities, senior citizens, women, children, as well as those living in poverty, for the National News.He also enjoys years of experience writing features on extraordinary lives and political stories on China's central government and foreign affairs. His exclusive interviewees come from all walks of life, including Nikola Gruevski, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, Bill Cosby, the well-known African-American sit-com comedian, and Dr. Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman who won the Nobel Prize. In New York City, he wrote for Xinhua News Agency North America, covering breaking news and business stories in and outside the Manhattan borough.At Columbia Journalism School, he worked as a staff journalist for Columbia News Service, producing local stories with a national impact to 400 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada through New York Times Syndicate. He used to be a staff writer for The Midtown Gazette, covering Manhattan's Midtown West, from Fifth Avenue to Hudson River, from 14th Street to Columbus Circle. Intriguingly focused on Medicine, Local Business, Immigration, and Social issues of human interests. In Beijing, he has also worked for the China Central Television News Channel (CCTV) and the Central Government News Center of Xinhua News Agency, where he focused on bilingual international reporting in business, politics and technology. You may follow Mengwei's Twitter feed at @chenmengwei or write to him at chenmengwei@chinadaily.com.cnHis journalistic works can be found here: http://searchen.chinadaily.com.cn/search?query=chen+mengwei