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The star-studded 30th China TV Golden Eagle Awards and 13th China Golden Eagle TV Art Festival were held in Changsha, central China’s Hunan Province Sunday night.
Epic drama “Diplomatic Situation” won the best TV series award. Its screenwriter Ma Jihong took the Best Screenplay Award. Chinese movie star Ren Dahua or Simon Yam won the Best Actor for his TV series “Macao People.” Tong Yao, who won accolades for her performance in a hit drama “Nothing but Thirty,” won the Best Actress for the drama “Like a Flowing River.” They’re both nominated for this highly-anticipated award for the first time and took the crown. Tong Yao choked up several times during her acceptance speech, saying that she really loves her character Song Yunping in the drama, she cherishes every scene, “thinking back the time when I was filming in the small village, I feel truly happy.”
The news of Tong Yao winning the award soon started trending on Chinese Twitter-like social media Weibo. “She deserves the reputation,” a comment by a social media user, received the highest number of likes. Kong Sheng won the Best Director Award for the drama “Like a Flowing River.”
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