Li Hong is an anchor of CCTV-4’s flagship program “Cross Strait”. She joined China Central Television in 2002 and has worked with the program for 15 consecutive years. In the meantime, she made frequent visits to Taiwan to interview well-known political and economic figures. She also covered intensively on cross-strait stories such as Chinese Mainlanders visiting Taiwan as tourists and Taiwanese entrepreneurs coming to the Mainland to seek business opportunities. She hosted various shows of CCTV, and is a well-experienced moderator in talk shows on political issues. Besides her own program, she also hosted other CCTV shows including "Want to Challenge?", "The Distant Home", "Sing to You" and so on. Meanwhile, she hosted major galas, including galas for the Chinese Love, the Year of the Dragon, the Light of China, the Grand Memorial for Emperor Yan, the 20 Anniversary gala for CCTV International Channel, Chinese Festival Legends, Launch Event of National Brand Plan, CCTV New Year Gala, Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, the Most Beautiful Teachers awarding ceremony, the Most Beautiful Doctors awarding ceremony and many more. She hosted the 5th "Cross-Strait Cultural Expo: Creative City Forum”, the 11th "Taiwan Business Forum”, the " CPC-KMT Forum" ("Cross-Strait Peace Development Forum"), the launch event for "2017 Cross-strait Communication Project", Digital Economy and Digital Silk Road International Conference, and the Cross-Strait Media Foresight Forum. Moreover, she was on the frontline for hosting Global Overseas Forum for China's National Reunification, Rome and Florence. She was awarded as the Outstanding Employee of the channel in 2008, and the Outstanding Personnel Award of the Shanghai World Expo coverage in 2010. In 2011, she won the excellent newsreader/anchor of CCTV, the Outstanding Personnel in Grass-root-Going Campaign, as well as the Excellent Anchor of the CCTV international channel. 2012 rewarded her with excellent newsreader/anchor of CCTV and Best Contribution award for the Channel. She was Top 10 newsreader/anchor of CCTV in 2017 and Best Commentator and Anchor of the 2nd National TV Reviewing Program in 2018. The program she hosted won the Famous Special Program Prize in 24th China News Awards, and the 1st prize of the 27th China News Awards.