Jaime A. FlorCruz is CNN's Beijing Bureau Chief and correspondent, responsible for the network's news coverage of China.
FlorCruz has studied, worked and traveled in China for thirty years, and reported extensively on the country as a journalist since 1980, when he started his journalistic career in China and worked as a reporter for Newsweek Magazine. In 1982, he joined TIME magazine's Beijing bureau, and served as Beijing bureau chief from 1990 to 2000. He has reported on all the major news events in China during that time, including the normalization of Sino-U.S. relations, China's economic and social reforms, the crackdown of Tiananmen protests in 1989, Deng Xiaoping's death, the Hong Kong handover, and the evolving cross-Straits relations.
FlorCruz is dean of the foreign press corps in Beijing and was a two-term president of the 200-member Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (1988-90 & 1996-1999). He is also the current Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
FlorCruz is fluent in English, Filipino and Mandarin Chinese. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in advertising from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and a degree in Chinese history from Peking University. FlorCruz is married to Ana Segovia FlorCruz and has two children. He is the co-author of Massacre at Beijing, a book about the crackdown in Tiananmen Square
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