Qinduo Xu has been working for the English Service of China Radio International since he graduated from Foreign Affairs College in 1996.

Qinduo has a strong interest in covering political and social affairs as a reporter and similar topics when writing a column for the website of the English service www.crienglish.com.

Qinduo returned to Beijing, the CRI headquarters, in 2008 after staying in Washington DC as the chief correspondent of China Radio International. As a correspondent, Qinduo wrote most of his stories in Chinese, covering a wide rang of topics in US foreign policy, politics and economic issues.

He joined Today team nearly at the very beginning when the show was created in April in 2009.