Counselor Gu Jin is interviewed. [Photo/Chinaculture.org]

Hu serves as a research fellow of the China National Academy of Painting, is a member of the China Calligraphers Association (CCA) and a member of the Cursive Script Committee of CCA. She’s also a professor at Peking University's Chinese Calligraphy Art Research Institute and the vice-chair of the Poetry Society of Henan province of China. She was voted by Chinese Calligraphy newspaper as one of the 10 Outstanding Modern Female Calligraphers of China in 2016. One of her poetry collections got the second place in the Excellent Books of Henan province.

To increase cultural exchanges between China and the outside world, Chinese Culture Talk was launched in 2015 by the Ministry of Culture. More than 40 events have been held in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia, covering philosophy, cultural relics, literature, music and art.