• 12-1-2010 Cui Jian’s new film “Blue Sky Bones” has begun shooting in Beijing, and for the first time media were allowed onto the set. Cinematographer Chris Doyle has one word to describe the film: “rocking.” Cui Jian himself has full confidence in his new project. Set in both the Cultural Revolution and the present day, the film takes its inspiration from Cui Jian’s own “The Lost Season,” weaving together three love stories across two generations. Cui Jian says the film is his tribute to young love. It is split into three parts, all tied together by the rock song of the same name.

• 9-4-2010 The crowd was still roaring as the curtains closed Saturday on the two-day rock concert at Mt. Qipan. During those two jam-packed days, 14 of China’s top rock artists, including Cui Jian, Zheng Jun, Zhang Chu, and Ye Shirong, took the stage and gave audiences in Shenyang a rock-n-roll extravaganza. For the grand finale, Cui Jian sang seven of his hits including “Blue Bones;” then, as the crowd cheered and yelled for more, he came out for an encore performance of his signature classic, “Nothing to My Name.” By the end of the night the entire crowd was on its feet, some even standing on chairs, to sing along with the rock icon.

• 6-8-2010 Cui Jian attended the opening ceremony of the Holisland Rock Festival in Suzhou. A month later, he came back and performed a brand new set for all the fans gathered there. Despite the rain, fans stayed out and sang along to their favorite hits.

• 6-5-2010 Cui Jian and the band performed a special “Green” Low-Carbon Concert at the Shanghai World Expo Park. As an ambassador for the annual Earth Hour campaign of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Cui Jian called for the lights to be turned off a number of times during his performance. On the darkened stage, he led audiences in singing “Balls Under the Red Flag,” “Transcendence,” “Blue Bones,” “Starting Over,” and other hits.

• 5-7-2010 Cui Jian – Live in Japan 2010 successfully at Kawaguchi City of Saitama Prefecture in Japan. For the first time since his 1995 tour, Cui Jianreturned to Japan to give a special performance with former band member Amari Kyosuke, who joined Cui Jian to sing their classic song, “Wild in the Snow.” The performance was held at the Cultural Center in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture. Click here for more news.

• 12-24-2009 At 7:30 on the dot, Cui Jian stepped onto the stage at the Beijing Exhibition Center to play the last show in his “Rock n Roll on the New Long March V21” tour. Just like twenty years ago, classic songs like “Balls Under the Red Flag,” “False Monk,” and “The Opportunist” filled the stadium, and the crowd went wild. It’s been two decades since Cui Jian played at the Beijing Exhibition Center, but the voice that sang “Nothing to My Name” hasn’t changed a bit—no more than the iconic red star on his cap. Just give him a guitar, and Cui Jian will still blow you away.

• Cui Jian attended a press conference for “Rock and Roll on the New Long March V21” Beijing Concert on November 18, 2009 in Beijing. The concert will be held on December 24, 2009. Singer Ai Jing and Cheng Lin appeared in the conference and presented a gift for Cui Jian. 20 years later, Cui Jian’s once again returned to the stage of Beijing Exhibition Center. Cui Jian said frankly that his rock&roll spirit has not changed, once he find the release point, such spirit would be completely broke out.

• In the evening of December 4, 2009, Cui Jian “Rock’n’Roll on the New Long March V21” Tour 2009 came to Taipei. This is the last stop before the final stop, the upcoming Beijing Concert on December 24, on his Tour Schedule. It is the first time for Cui Jian to hold such a mini-concert which held in “Legacy TAIPEI” Showcase Center in Taipei. During the almost 2 hours performance, Cui Jian represented many classic songs like “Nothing to My Name”, “Rock’n’Roll on the New Long March” and “Greenhouse Girl”. The concert ended with “Solve”. Taiwan media said it was “the Rock’n’Roll baptism of Cross-generation, Cross-Straits”. Many Taiwanese musicians like Harlem Yu (Yu Chengqing), Chang Chen-yue (Zhang Zhenyue), MC HotDog, Chen Qizhen, Zhang Xuan, Tarcy Su (Su Huilun), Chan Shan-ni, Yang Naiwen, Huang Dawei, Wang Zhiping, A-Xiang, etc. came to the scene. The well-known poet Lung Ying-tai also appeared in the audience. Zhang Huimei who was absent because of a performance also gave her respects to Cui Jian and conveyed regret.

• October 24, 2009, "China's first rock and roll MIDI Award" dropped the curtain. At the prize presentation ceremony, a special "Chinese Rock Contribution Award" was awarded to Cui Jian in praise of him who has made an outstanding contribution to rock and roll scene in China. Cui Jian was not able to attend the ceremony because he was on his China Tour, 2009; however, Cui Jian recorded a VCR in particular to congratulate the prize presentation ceremony.

• “Jeep · Person of the Year Festival”, which are organized by Off-road brand JEEP and Phoenix Net jointly held in the ancient city of Lijiang on the 16th of Oct., 2009. Cui Jian won Jeep Pioneer Award. Cui Jian said as winners we are successful, but we should encourage people who failed in exploration. So I believe that it is more significant of this award to encourage them.

• Cui Jian and the band participated in Shanghai Jazz Festival on October 18, 2009. The Festival took place at Shanghai Century Park from October 17th to 18th; Jazz team from 13 different countries all over the world began the carnival.

• Cui Jian attended 2009 Pusan International Film Festival; "Chengdu, I love you" is selected in GALA PRESENTATION.
     With the film “Chengdu, I love you”, Cui Jian and Fruit Chan, two directors who directed the film came back from Venice Film Festival with honors. By the virtue of its art and high quality of production, the film has been entered in the Master Classes (GALA PRESENTATION) of the 14th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). This called “Solemnly Introduce” classes, since its inception in 2007, aims to introduce the world famous director’s new work, the topic of international works and so on, and becomes a new hot spot and symbol of PIFF.
    Pioneer Cui Jian’s directorial debut and Hong Kong director Fruit Chan’s part of film “Chengdu, I love you” has won a good reputation and widely praised in the just concluded Venice Film Festival. With international influence, as well as the relationship between Cui Jian and Pusan International Film Festival, “Chengdu, I love you” has been introduced as a master of film which is also regarded as a time to pay tribute to the high level director in Asia. This year’s PIFF becomes more diversified and gets rid of restrictions on regional film festival gradually. Although the PIFF is not a competition-based film festival, its dedication of finding new film maker has built an international-oriented film exchange platform.

• Cui Jian and the band was invited to partipate in "Review of China's 20 years of classic rock music - Yinchuan Concert",the evening of August 15,2009. This concert is another big event in the western China besides "Helan Mountain Rock Music Festival" which held in 2004.

• July 26, 2009 Cui Jian and the band took part in the second Green Banner of Grassland Music Festival, held in Hohhot in Inner Mongolia. Besides watching the performance which has lasting for three days, audience can also experience the Mongolian cultural at the same time.

• July 5, 2009 as the invited guest performer of Shanghai “Pepsi Qunyin” activity, Cui Jian and the band performed Cui Jian’s first rap work “It’s not that I Don’t Understand”. Cui Jian shows his in favor of no-out, non-draft model and believes that the approach of “selecting songs rather than player” can ensure the selection of good music without judging it from the performer’s appearance or the errors in live performance.

• May 1st, 2009, Cui Jian and the band participated in "MiDi Music Festival 2009"(Zhengjiang Station).

• April 10, 2009,Cui Jian attended the ceremony of shooting starts on the film "Chengdu, I love you" which held in world's Art Museum of China Millennium Monument in Beijing.

• Feb. 7 night, 2009, Cui Jian and the band were invited to perform at the activity 'A gathering of heroes' which was held by 'Mercedes-Benz' at Sanya city. The atmosphere reached climax when Cui Jian gave the finale performance to audience. After singing 'Get over that day', 'Greenhouse girl' and 'Here we got space', Cui Jian gave several encores and sang the 'Let me go wild in the snow' for the excited audience.

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