Ming Beaver Kwei (Chinese: 桂幼铭; born November 12, 1966) is an American film producer based in Los Angeles and China.

Born YauMing Kwei in Hong Kong, Beaver grew up on the Shaw Brothers backlot with his filmmaking family, where his father directed 75 films and his mother worked as a Foley artist.

Kwei began his Hollywood career as a personal assistant to Jet Li on such popular movies as Hero, Romeo Must Die and Kiss of the Dragon.

[5]Over the course of five years, eight films and one video game production, Kwei built a fruitful working relationship with Li and even did some action unit stunt directing on Kiss of the Dragon.

We may not agree 100%, but we may ultimately end up changing 30-40% of the scene, and the result is worth it.”[6]From 2005 to 2008, he was the Executive VP of production and development for Warner China Film HG[7] and was the associate producer of the Edward Norton-Naomi Watts film, The Painted Veil, shot on location in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangxi, China, and Slam, a youth basketball drama.

Kwei’s cross-cultural sensibilities came into play, working with Gordon and writer Amy Snow to develop a vehicle for Zhang that would be in the tradition of Hollywood rom-coms, yet specifically tailored for a Chinese audience.

Gordon recalled getting the balance just right to The Los Angeles Times in 2013:[10] “I pitched [to Zhang] -- what if we took you to the land of James Bond or Romancing the Stone, a spy-tastic adventure where Sophie has to step up to the plate?

Kwei earned an executive producer credit on 2017’s The Adventurers, a big-budget action thriller starring Andy Lau, Qi Shu and Jean Reno.

The Meg, a thriller about a megalodon prehistoric shark discovered by scientists in the Marianas Trench, boasted a big budget ($130–178 million) and an international cast that included Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao and Cliff Curtis.

In 2020, Kwei produced the romantic drama, I Remember directed by Nan Zhou and starring Angelababy, Hong-Chi Lee and Denny Huang.

2023 saw the global release of Meg 2: The Trench, reuniting Statham and Curtis with actors Page Kennedy, and Shuya Sophia Cai from the original blockbuster.

The movie follows a group of police detectives led by Zhang Hanyu (The Taking of Tiger Mountain), on a task force to find out who is robbing trans-Siberian railways from Beijing to Moscow.

"[15] Kwei, in association with CMC Pictures and Huanxi Media, is producing Unspoken, a suspense drama starring Moscow Mission's Hanyu, Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead), Jake Abel (Malignant) and Vivienne Tien (Be Yourself).

The Chinese-Canadian film, directed by Daming Chen, follows a former cop (Zhang) seeking justice after his deaf daughter is murdered at an American university.