Wanqing Chen is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker based in China. She primarily focuses on stories about underrepresented communities and conducts investigations into social injustice. Previously, she worked with the Associated Press in Beijing. Her coverage ranges from gender and labor issues, to China’s economy and U.S.-China relations. Her reporting has been republished by various media including NPR, South China Morning Post, and many more. 

In 2025, Wanqing was selected as a Video Consortium London Allies Programme fellow. In 2023, her coverage of Chinese feminist communities won an Asian American Journalists Association award.

Born and raised in Wuhan, Wanqing experienced the city’s lockdown firsthand in 2020, which let her to cover social issues and understanding the complexities of China and the world. She later transitioned from a finance career to storytelling with a humane and global perspective.

Wanqing holds an MSc in Financial Engineering from Imperial College London, and has lived and worked in London, Shanghai, Beijing. She applies programming and OSINT techniques to social investigations.

Before journalism, she worked as a TMT equity analyst at a boutique hedge fund in Shanghai and co-founded a London-based community for women working in tech.