Chen is a member of Chinese Communist Party and vice-president of the People's Liberation Army Second Artillery Corps Song and Dance Troupe.

[1][2][3] Chen is the first singer from mainland China to play a personal concert in Taiwan.

[3] Chen was born in Changde, Hunan in 1976, with her ancestral home in Nanjing, Jiangsu.

She entered the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art for master's studies in 1999, and successively studied under Chinese vocal music educators Professor Jin Tielin and Professor Li Shuangjiang.

[4] Chen joined the People's Liberation Army Second Artillery Corps Song and Dance Troupe in 1999; as of 2012, she was the vice-president of the People's Liberation Army Second Artillery Corps Song and Dance Troupe.