He Mei

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	He Mei (何梅)
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Jiangzhou City Television Station
Occupation/Role	Intern reporter; later financial-column star host; eventually director of Jiangzhou City Television
First Appearance	35

Background / History

He Mei was a journalism student at Jiangzhou University and an intern reporter at Jiangzhou City Television Station. She first met Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan through her classmate Jingjing, intending to purchase a computer with the same configuration Tao Yan had built for Jingjing. Having previously covered Jiangzhou Police's human-trafficking-ring bust with senior reporters, she had already heard of the two boys' role in alerting the police. 35

Interested in both their technical ability and their unusual background, He Mei attempted to interview them during their first meeting. Tao Yan refused directly, but she continued to build a working relationship with the pair through their computer business. 35

After learning that Jingjing had become a campus sales agent, He Mei negotiated her own commission arrangement. She proposed introducing the television station's purchasing department to Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan for a potential bulk computer order, leveraging her aunt's position as purchasing manager. 36

When the Missing Persons Rescue Website was completed, He Mei joined its early media coverage. She brought a telephoto camera, worked alongside a station cameraman, interviewed the orphanage community and the website's founders, and arranged for photographs to be developed and used in the news material. 45 46 47

Her coverage helped publicize the website and the children of Red Heart Orphanage. She later sought follow-up coverage of Meng Yangyang's paternity test, viewing it as both an important public-interest story and an opportunity to promote the rescue website. 47 57

Over the following years, He Mei advanced from a social-affairs intern to a star host of the station's financial column. She traveled with the Jiangzhou Television interview team during Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan's Silicon Valley inspection program, and later became director of Jiangzhou City Television. 85 116

Personality

He Mei is curious, outspoken, and opportunistic in a practical sense. Her first response to Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan's abilities is to ask where they came from, while her response to their computer business is to negotiate price and commission terms rather than accept the first offer. 36 45

She is ambitious about her reporting career and readily recognizes valuable news angles. She openly considers Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan her “lucky stars,” since their work repeatedly provides major stories and advances her professional prospects. 57

Despite this ambition, He Mei shows empathy and professional tact. During the interview at Red Heart Orphanage, she understands Tao Yan's discomfort with publicity and keeps the interview focused and brief. She also supports using media exposure to help missing children and their families find one another. 46 47

Abilities & Skills

Journalism and Interviewing

He Mei has experience gathering news with senior reporters and organizing written reports, photographs, and video footage for Jiangzhou City Television. 35

• Conducts field interviews with orphanage staff, children, police, residents, and the website's founders. 45 47
• Recognizes that an interviewer's approachability can matter as much as formal credentials in sensitive human-interest reporting. 46
• Proposes follow-up reporting on the paternity-test process involving Meng Yangyang and Xinbao. 57

Media Promotion

He Mei actively uses station resources and reporting opportunities to increase awareness of the Missing Persons Rescue Website and Red Heart Orphanage. 47

• Offers to develop orphanage photographs and incorporate them into television news material. 47
• Helps publicize the website so that missing children's families may recognize and contact the station about them. 47
• Brings developed photographs to the orphanage for scanning and uploading to the website. 48

Negotiation and Networking

He Mei is willing to bargain directly for favorable business terms and draw on personal connections to create opportunities. 36

• Negotiates a reduced price for her computer and a potential 2% commission on a television-station procurement deal. 36
• Uses her relationship with the station purchasing department manager—her aunt—to introduce Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan's computers. 36
• Advocates for their products within the station, emphasizing their quality, accessible operating system, and after-sales service. 47 57

Relationships

• Jingjing — Journalism-school classmate and close friend. Jingjing introduces He Mei to Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan, and the two discuss their respective computer purchases and sales-agent arrangements. 35 36
• Tao Yan — Interview subject, computer supplier, and recurring news source. He Mei respects his technical skill but recognizes his dislike of publicity. 35 46
• Huo Baichuan — Interview subject, business contact, and frequent subject of playful banter. He Mei trusts his photography enough to ask him to take pictures of her. 45 46 59
• Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan — Their rescue website and charitable work become central to He Mei's early reporting career; she credits them with providing major, high-interest stories. 57 85
• Wen Jing — Identified as He Mei's good friend; Wen Jing later takes over the Missing Children Rescue Website as a volunteer leader. 116

Story Role / Major Arcs

Computer Business Connection

He Mei enters the story as Jingjing's friend and a prospective computer customer. She secures a computer built to Jingjing's specifications, negotiates pricing, and offers access to Jiangzhou Television's possible computer purchase order. 35 36

Missing Persons Rescue Website Coverage

She becomes one of the first reporters to document the website's launch, the orphanage children's registrations, and the founders' public commitment to assisting trafficked children. Her reporting helps bring the project and its beneficiaries into public view. 45 46 47

Family-Reunification Reporting

He Mei brings Meng Yangyang's parents to Red Heart Orphanage after they identify information from the rescue website. She then seeks to cover the paternity-testing process as a follow-up report. 55 57

Career Advancement

He Mei's continuing association with Tao Yan and Huo Baichuan's projects strengthens her reputation at Jiangzhou Television. She becomes a financial-column star host, travels internationally with the station's interview team, and ultimately rises to station director. 85 116

Trivia

• He Mei's mother cannot cook her favorite dish, water bamboo shoots with fermented black beans, without making it bitter. 47
• She once lent her own newly purchased computer to her aunt's department for more than a month after it proved convenient to use. 58
• She repeatedly asks Huo Baichuan to photograph her, praising his skill with a camera. 48 59