Her translation skills and beauty made her a celebrity in China.

[1][2][3][4] Zhang was born and grew up in Jinan.

[5] She graduated from the China Foreign Affairs University in 2000.

[2] Zhang gained public attention in 2010 by translating quotations from Classical Chinese literature used by Premier Wen Jiabao at the 2010 National People's Congress.

[1] In 2016, she was a division chief in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs's Department of Translation and Interpretation.