Jay Chou, Na Ying, Wang Feng, and Harlem Yu are the coaches, same as the fourth season of The Voice of China On 7 October 2016, Jiang Dunhao of Team Wang Feng was announced as the winner of the season, with Nathan Hartono of Team Jay as runner-up.
Da Shan, Tan Xuanyuan and Ika Zhao, artists from Team Harlem on the previous seasons of The Voice of China, performed "我要给你" at the start of the show to celebrate Yu's 55th birthday.
Host Li Yong performed a medley of songs by the four coaches – Wang's "春天里", Yu's "情非得已", Na's "征服", and Chou's "听妈妈的话" – at the start of the show.
However, the recommendations would not have an effect on the outcome of the results as the final decisions lie solely on the team coaches themselves.
The total number of votes cast by the professional judging panel and studio audience were converted into points accordingly to the weightage (50% each).
The Top 6 performed in the two-part season finale on 7 October 2016, held at the Beijing National Stadium.
On the day of the finals, as voting by the media commenced to determine the winner, host Hua Shao had announced multiple times that the number of judges who were to cast their ballots was 81.
The judges, said to be industry and media professionals, were invited on stage to drop their vote in two ballot boxes.
As Hartono took the lead at first by nine votes, organisers decided to take a two-minute commercial break after detecting a computer glitch.
Had that been the case, Hartono would have stood a greater chance at being the first non-Chinese citizen to win the competition, and the first Singaporean to do so.
Among Singaporean fans, some speculated that the contest was rigged, while others simply congratulated Hartono for having come so far as a foreign participant.
Hartono was the first Singaporean to have made it past the blind auditions, since all of Singapore's representatives for seasons 3 and 4 of The Voice of China – Jeremy Teng, Alfred Sim and Tay Kewei – had been unable to do so.
In spite of this, Hartono's mentor Chou said in an interview with Sina.com after the competition that he was pleased with all aspects of the show, but joked that "the media were dizzy from the cold [weather], so maybe they voted wrongly."
"[17] On 11 October 2016, four days after the grand finals, it was reported on The Straits Times that a machine error allegedly caused the mix-up.
"We didn't expect that when a swipe took a long time to be detected, the voting machine would read it again."