Hu Xiaofei Daoyin Kangyang Academy

Professor Hu Xiaofei is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He formerly headed the health-cultivation teaching office and the Daoyin centre at Beijing Sport University, and is a recognised teaching master among Beijing universities. He is a member of the International Health Qigong Federation and deputy head of its technical committee; a standing committee member of the Chinese Health Qigong Association and deputy head of its research committee; and was among the first examiners for Health Qigong overseas grading.

He was the first health-cultivation professor to lecture at United Nations headquarters, and received Cuba's Mártires de Barbados sporting honour. He studied with Professor Zhang Guangde and has taught, researched and shared traditional health cultivation for nearly thirty years, with particular work in daoyin, yangsheng taiji, and the design of exercise programmes. He has taught tens of thousands of students from more than fifty countries; he has served many times as chief judge at international and national daoyin and Health Qigong competitions; and he has lectured, reported and performed on nearly a hundred visits to almost thirty countries, including the United States, Japan and Germany.

He has also taught at Chinese government and academic institutions, industry sports associations, towns, neighbourhoods and care homes. He created the Qianlong yangsheng system and has written books including Qianlong Fitness Art, Ba Duan Jin for Building Strength, Warm-up before Yangsheng Practice, and Wheelchair Fitness Art. He co-authored the nationally promoted teaching materials Health Qigong · Daoyin Yangsheng Gong 12 Methods and Health Qigong · Twelve Brocades.