[1] She is the author of seventeen novels, two film screenplays, ten books and many other work including poems and literary reviews.

Her second novel Sunshine and the Monsoon, written at sixteen, was published in 1995 and won her national reputation as the youngest talented writer;[5] Zhong was interviewed by China Central Television's Book Review.

[6] In 1992, Zhong received an award voted by national readers for a short story released in Shanghai Youth Literature as the "Best Work of The Year".

[citation needed] At the age of sixteen, Zhong was offered admission by three top art universities in China.

[17] Zhong also wrote London theater reviews for newspapers and National Drama Study,[18] and was cited by Shakespeare beyond English published in the UK.

She also sketched a new fiction Miss China and a non-fiction Folks of New York at Manhattan, and then wrote her first collection of poems in English after coming back to London in the fall of 2016.

[24] On 6 February 2020, right after the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, one of the COVID-19 'eight gentlemen' in Wuhan, Yilin Zhong posted a Weibo to question Dr. Li's death as suspicious, suspecting that he did not pass away from natural causes dead but was killed by some Wuhan malfeasance officers in order to destroy evidence of their malfeasance during the Coronavirus spreading from December 2019 to January 2020.

Then she was scolded by a large number of Chinese official media, alongside CNN who also suspiciously questioned Dr. Li Wenliang's death.

[27] On 13 February, right after the Chinese central government removed two Party Committee Secretaries in Hubei, Yilin Zhong found the broadband at her London home was suddenly cut off by the hacker.

[31] Then almost at the same time when Wuhan writer Fang Fang has published her 'Wuhan Diary' in both USA and Germany, Amazon.com sent Yilin Zhong an official notification notifying her that they had closed her KDP author's account and had removed all her books from the Kindle Store, despite the fact that all her Kindle books are fiction works and were published via KDP more than three years ago.