In 2018, she won the Best Supporting Actress in Hundred Flowers Award[1] for her role as "Tong Li, the Female Machine Gunner" in the movie Operation Red Sea.
The title "Wu Ying" (武 英 means "Martial Hero") is the highest form of addressing a Wushu athlete[3] and is only awarded to participants that have consistently maintained the top three positions in the national competitions.
She was also the State Martial Arts Repertoires A-level Referee and is on the Board of the Wushu Association of Beijing Sports University.
Before becoming an actress, Jiang was a popular award-winning Internet Celebrity, actively promoting martial arts under the nickname of "Mao Er Bao Bei" (猫耳宝贝).
As a child, she was sporty and active and her father noticed that Jiang showed potential in martial arts due to her good physical fitness.
She became inspired to be an actress after watching the "Tai Chi Master" (太極張三豐), a 1993 Hong Kong Martial Arts film directed by Yuen Woo-ping, starring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
Jiang took that remark earnestly as she had already cultivated a passion for martial arts and becoming an actress after watching "Tai Chi Master".
Taking into account her physical conditions and future career development, she decided to pursue her study at a university.
So we discussed and decided to open a joint martial arts gym to teach wushu and self-defense for girls."
From February 2007, Jiang and her friends started shooting the series under the nickname "Mao Er Bao Bei" (猫耳宝贝 means Cat Ear Baby).
Jiang was unanimously selected to be filmed performing martial arts and acrobatic stunts in the videos.
The series was created with upbeat music and Jiang's performance was energetic, vigorous, and full of heroic spirit.
She has also served as the Chief Trainer of the "Practical Women's Self-defense Techniques" column of CCTV Sports Channel.
[12] Jiang was still studying in university when her classmate approached her to work as a stand-in (stunt double) for a commercial shooting for Guo Jingjing (Chinese female diver, and multi-time Olympic gold medalist and world champion.)
The director of the commercial, Hung Yan-yan, was the former stunt double for martial art superstar Jet Li and was renowned for playing the role "Kwai Geuk-Chat" (鬼脚七 means Clubfoot Seven) in "Once Upon a Time in China III".
Four months later in, December 2009, Hung Yan-yan cast Jiang where she played the lead role as protagonist Nie Yiyi for the action film "Coweb" (战,无双).
[13] The media has described Jiang as the up-and-coming young action movie star, the female version of Jackie Chan.
While Jiang had sustained many injuries from the fight scenes in a tight filming schedule, the public response towards the movie was not overwhelming.
Although Jiang embarked into the movie industry as a lead actress, she did not achieve fame and had a lack of success in showbiz.
"[14] In 2017, Jiang was struggling until she was contacted about the film director Dante Lam casting for the movie Operation Red Sea.
To portray more realistic visualization to the audience, the actors were required to wear uniforms that weighed more than 12 kg and had to carry weapons and gadgets weighted around 20 kg during filming, especially for Jiang, who had to carry the heaviest weapon[16] due to her role as the Machine Gunner.
She was nominated in various movie festivals and won many accolades, including the best-supporting actress in the prestigious Hundred Flowers Award in China.
I believe that there is no trough in life, but preparation and readiness to take action when the opportunity arrives .”Apart from actively acting in some film and television series, Jiang has also participated in the successful Chinese Reality Television Show, Sisters that Make Waves (Season 2), that premiered on Mango TV on 23 January 2021.