When she was 13, she started her career as a dancer in "Song & Dance Troupe of Frontier Line".
In 1996, Mei Ting was admitted into the prestige Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Department of Acting.
Among her classmates were Zhang Ziyi, Qin Hailu, Yuan Quan and Hu Jing, dubbed as the "Five Golden Flowers of the Class 1996".
To everyone's surprise, the second year after her enrollment, she made a difficult decision to suspend her college study to dedicate herself fully to the appointed roles in a number of TV series.
As an industrious and productive actress, Mei Ting acted in more than 10 movies and TV series between 1997 and 2001.