When it comes to the host of CCTV, Zhou Tao's name can never be avoided. After entering CCTV in 1995, Zhou Tao served as the host on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 17 years, becoming the female host who has hosted the Spring Festival Gala the most so far. The hosts who shared the stage with her, Zhao Zhongxiang, Ni Ping, Zhu Jun, Dong Qing, etc., all praised her, and Zhou Tao was also as kind as family in the eyes of the audience. However, in 2016, Zhou Tao suddenly announced his departure from CCTV, and the news exploded on the Internet. Nowadays, the news of the resignation of the CCTV host has long been commonplace, but at that time, Zhou Tao's decision was very surprising. She was 48 years old that year, the audience regretted it, and the leaders kept her, but Zhou Tao insisted on leaving, and no one knew the reason behind it. Now, 55-year-old Zhou Tao rarely posted a recent photo, and netizens exclaimed: "I haven't seen you for many years, Sister Tao, you have become like this?!"."Why, exactly, did Zhou Tao leave CCTV?What did she do for the next 7 years?
In March 1968, Zhou Tao was born in a Kochi family in Huainan City, Anhui Province. His father was a senior secondary school teacher, his mother was a dance teacher, and later became the director of the District Cultural Bureau, and his grandparents were both secondary school teachers. Because his parents were busy with work, when he was 3 years old, Zhou Tao was sent to live with his grandparents. My grandparents' house is in a village at the foot of Dabie Mountain, and the people in the village respect Zhou Tao's grandparents very much, and they have to ask after fishing: "Teacher Zhou, Teacher Sun, do you want to leave two fish for you?"Zhou Tao sometimes asks, "Why do they only ask about our family and not about other people's homes?"The grandparents told Zhou Tao that in a small village, the knowledge content of the teachers and the education of generations of students deserve the respect of the villagers. Since he was a child, Zhou Tao has remembered the importance of knowledge. When he was in elementary school, Zhou Tao was taken back to Huainan City to live with his parents. The work of his parents had a great impact on Zhou Tao, at night, his father often sat on the desk to write lesson plans, correct test papers, and his mother accompanied him, and there was little noise at home, and the family was immersed in the sound of books. Zhou Tao changed his naughtiness and activity at his grandparents' house, and followed his parents to open the book and read it. When she was 6 years old, her parents took Zhou Tao to Beijing, where she visited the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and Tiananmen Square. Little Zhou Tao's eyes flashed, and a city like Beijing became her childhood yearning. Her father once told her that going to a big city to struggle not only requires hard work, but also the most important step when encountering difficulties. After dinner, Zhou Tao can always hear how those parents' outstanding students learned, and Zhou Tao secretly wrote down - he also wants to be the best student. When she was in high school, her teacher saw that Zhou Tao was generous, good-looking, and outstanding, so he recommended her to study art. Zhou Tao thought about it for a long time, singer?Dancer?Actors?In the end, she chose broadcasting, Zhou Tao wanted to go to Beijing, she wanted to go to Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now Communication University of China), she begged her father three times, and her father agreed to this plan. 
At that time, the art examination only tested language expression, and Zhou Tao took the train to a teacher's home in Hefei every week to tutor, and continued to study for more than half a year. During the art examination, Zhou Tao successfully completed the content of the exam. In 1986, she was the only student in Anhui Province to be admitted to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute. 
On the way to report to school, when Zhou Tao passed by Chang'an Avenue in a car, she looked at Tiananmen Square and cried: "My childhood dream has come true, Beijing, I'm here." In the four years of college, Zhou Tao visited Beijing, and also consulted the teachers of the school, her professional grades were outstanding, I thought that when I graduated, I would be assigned a job that matched my major, but I didn't expect that by mistake, Zhou Tao was assigned to the Beijing Public Security Bureau. 
Later, for two and a half years of work, Zhou Tao recorded various information films in the office every day, and the work was idle and the content was repetitive, which she didn't like at a glance. She said: "I love broadcasting very much, but what I have learned in four years, almost useless work, I feel very sorry and sad." I'm leaving, I'm going to work in a place where I can use my expertise. In 1992, Zhou Tao joined the broadcasting department of Beijing TV station. Engaged in the work she likes, she is very hard, I remember once she went from Beijing to Zhuozhou to interview Lin Qingxia, the interview ended at 2 o'clock in the morning, and when she returned to Beijing, it was 4 o'clock in the morning, she didn't have time to rest and went to the station to catch up with the broadcast at 7 o'clock in the morning. Working all night like this is like a common occurrence for Zhou Tao. 
Full attendance and overtime every month, recording 3 columns a day at most. With the attention of the TV station and Zhou Tao's efforts, she made rapid progress, and during her tenure, she also won the "Chunyan Cup" Best Program Host Award issued by the Beijing Television Artists Association. Zhou Tao did a good job on Beijing TV, and because of her outstanding ability, she was given the opportunity to study in the United States for a year, and the director promised her that she could become a director and producer when she returned. But a new job offer made Zhou Tao hesitate. 
In 1995, CCTV's ace program "Variety Show" invited Zhou Tao to host, and the original host of the show was Ni Ping. Zhou Tao was very hesitant: Can he host it?Can you cooperate with Ni Ping?What about the training opportunities of Beijing TV?After thinking about it, she decided to give it a try: "Spending the same amount of time and energy, with 10 million viewers on one side and billions of viewers on the other, has different requirements for yourself, and it is also a new challenge. She politely declined the opportunity to study abroad, left Beijing TV, and came to CCTV. In every issue of "Variety Show" hosted by Ni Ping, Zhou Tao will substitute himself into the role of the host, what do you say?What did Ni Ping say?Every time he exercises, Zhou Tao's professional ability is constantly improving. 
But in the two and a half years that she has been hosting the show, she has never been able to find her position. Until one show, she participated in high-altitude bungee jumping and performed well. Colleagues in the station praised her when they met, and many viewers wrote to praise her for her "courage and personality." As she became famous, she received more and more letters from the audience, most of which were letters asking for help, because she had no money to see a doctor, she asked Zhou Tao to help find a doctor, and because she had no money to go to school, she asked Zhou Tao to help find a school. Zhou Tao sent a lot of money to the letter. Later, she thought that it would be better to hold a public welfare program to help these people in need. 
In 2001, as the chief director, producer, and host, Zhou Tao wore many hats and opened CCTV's only public welfare and environmental protection column "Truth Unlimited", raising more than 5 million yuan in donations, becoming the daily column with the largest number of donations to public welfare and charity. The funds were distributed to various public welfare projects, such as the protection of the Yellow River and the ecological protection of the western region. In 2005, Zhou Tao was transferred to the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and served as the deputy director of the Information Department of the Organizing Committee. To this end, Zhou Tao reduced the host of CCTV programs and devoted himself to the preparation of the Olympic Games.
During her work in the Olympic Organizing Committee, Zhou Tao was responsible for the global television broadcast of the opening and closing ceremoniesIt is also responsible for the communication between the groups and the broadcasters. Her work is more behind the scenes, and in the past three years, Zhou Tao has gained more growth and achievements. In May 2008, Zhou Tao became the first torchbearer of the Huainan Station of the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay. On August 8, in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhou Tao served as the commentator of the opening ceremony. Her work was successfully completed and won unanimous praise from Taili. After the work of the Olympic Organizing Committee ended, in 2009, Zhou Tao became the deputy director of the CCTV Literature and Art Center, spending more time on behind-the-scenes organization. In 2012, she served as the deputy director of the large-scale program center of ** TV station, and at this time, hosting was a smaller part of Zhou Tao's work, and her identity has quietly changed.
CCTV held a number of large-scale programs: Heart to Heart May Day Gala, July 1st Gala, 11th Gala, Young Singer Grand Prix, Cross Talk Competition, Ministry of Public Security Spring Festival TV Gala, "Peak ** Hui" and other programs, Zhou Tao is the chief producer and producer, behind the scenes. At the same time, she has also won many medals: the May Day Labor Medal, the 8th China Youth May Fourth Medal, the Top Ten Hosts of **TV Stations, the 4th National Host "Golden Microphone" Award, the Best Host of the 16th National TV Literature and Art "Starlight Award", the 2nd National Top 100 TV Workers, and the Best Host Award of the 4th Macao International Television Festival.
During this period, Zhou Tao gained rich experience and received many praises, but the fixation and pattern of work made her want to jump out of her comfort zone again, and finally in 2016, she made this decision - to leave CCTV.
Since 1996, Zhou Tao has hosted a total of 17 Spring Festival Galas, and 2016 is the last one, and it is also the one to bid farewell to the audience. In the last sentence of the Spring Festival Gala in previous years, Zhou Tao would say: "This year's **TV Spring Festival Gala is over here, thank you**." See you next year!But at the end of the 2016 Spring Festival Gala, Zhou Tao only said: "Audience friends, goodbye!."”
After the news of leaving CCTV came out, netizens said a lot for a while, some regrets, some blessings, but also bad comments: some said "Zhou Tao is a sugar daddy", and some said "Zhou Tao was replaced by the new hostess after returning from the Olympic Organizing Committee, and he couldn't do it anymore", and even attributed the reason to Zhou Tao's daughter, saying "Because of her daughter's autism, Zhou Tao wants to accompany her children, so she resigned". Zhou Tao ignored her suspicions, but when it came to her daughter, Zhou Tao retorted: "My daughter is fine, she has no autism. I usually do public welfare and I stay with many children with autism, and everyone misunderstands. ”
Zhou Tao did not respond to many conjectures about Zhou Tao's marital emotions in the rumors, but in fact, Zhou Tao has also experienced many twists and turns in this regard. When he first went to college, Zhou Tao met Yao Ke, a senior who was three years older than him, Yao Ke had strong learning ability and was reliable in dealing with people, and the two quickly walked together.
After graduation, the relationship between the two has been very stable, Yao Ke worked in the broadcasting department of ** TV station, and later when Zhou Tao went to work in the broadcasting department of Beijing TV station, the two were closer because of their similar work, and Yao Ke proposed to Zhou Tao. Zhou Tao recalled the company in the past few years, and the two had a lot of common topics in life and work, and she agreed without thinking too much. A few years after marriage, Zhou Tao entered CCTV, and her career developed rapidly, and she changed from a student-like host to a chief director and producer with diverse identities. She invests a lot in her career, but she invests less and less time in her family. The differences in their personalities at work are becoming more and more apparent. Zhou Tao is used to seizing every opportunity to go up, while Yao Ke has worked in the CCTV broadcasting department for many years, but he has not made much progress.
The estrangement slowly creeps in, and the cracks in the intimate relationship are getting wider. In 2002, Zhou Tao and Yao Ke officially divorced. Half a year later, Zhou Tao's former friend Lu Yun frequently appeared in Zhou Tao's life, daily life, work problems, going out to play, etc., Lu Yun gave Zhou Tao a lot of help and companionship. Once Zhou Tao's aunt was sick and hospitalized, Zhou Tao couldn't spare time due to busy work, Lu Yun took the initiative to put the responsibility of care on himself, so that Zhou Tao could work with peace of mind. Zhou Tao sees all kinds of signs in life, and she knows that Lu Yun is the best partner on her life road. In 2004, Zhou Tao and Lu Yun got married.
Many people asked Zhou Tao, you are the host, he is a businessman, are you suitable?In this regard, Zhou Tao said: "He is more calm, is the type I like, to be more specific, this time my choice is by no means like when I was young, just passion does not consider other factors, through getting along with him, I can be sure that he is the most suitable type for me." The next year, Zhou Tao's daughter Xiangxiang was born.
Doubts about her happy marriage faded away. In the last few years of work of the Olympic Organizing Committee and CCTV, Zhou Tao handed in a full score answer sheet. After leaving CCTV, Zhou Tao was transferred to Beijing Performing Arts Group to start a new life path. She is the chief director, directing "Olympic Park ** Season" for 5 consecutive years, and serving as the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala "Hundred Flowers Welcoming Spring" of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles for 3 consecutive years.
She is an actress and has starred in dramas, movies, TV series, Spring Festival Gala sketches, etc.;She did dubbing, participated in the variety show "Sound Immersion", and dubbed the first and second seasons of the documentary "China".
She is still working as a host, serving as the host of Shandong Satellite TV's Spring Festival Gala for 4 years, the host of Anhui Satellite TV's Spring Festival Gala in 2023, the award ceremony of the China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Awards, and the closing of Jackie Chan's international action movie. She has offered to do public welfare many times to do condolence performances in the grassroots and poor areas, and has participated in CCTV's "Heart to Heart" public welfare activities more than 40 times. Zhou Tao has experienced 4 "jumps" in her life, from Beijing Public Security to Beijing TV, to ** TV, to the Olympic Organizing Committee, and now to the Beijing Performing Arts Group, she always grasps the rhythm of her life and dances beautifully every time. Now, Zhou Tao has lived her own life, and she has also fulfilled her childhood dream, relying on her tenacious upward growth ability, and has stayed in Beijing.
Zhou Tao, who is 55 years old this year, is still unwilling to be in his comfort zone, and is still constantly breaking through himself and challenging himself. Some time ago, Zhou Tao just finished his work as the chief director and host of the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou West Lake International Expo.
She and her husband still have a good relationship, and her daughter is 18 years old this year, a slim girl, with a strong and tenacious personality like Zhou Tao when he was young. On November 7, 2023, she updated a personal Weibo, ** in which she is sunny, gentle, and full of strength. As she said in her copy: "If you love something, just keep doing it!."”
Zhou Tao has not disappeared, she has been following her heart and doing what she wants to do. As an audience, although she can rarely be seen on TV, when she learns about Zhou Tao's current life, she will be like the netizens in her comment area, and she can't help but say: Sister Tao, I haven't seen you for a long time. Now you're really cool.