It was disclosed on Beijing municipal government’s website (middle of left pic) the other day that the training budget for 
Eileen Gu (谷爱凌) and Zhu Yi (朱易; formerly Beverly Zhu) — two American-born Chinese athletes who’ve been representing China since a few years ago (Zhu reportedly gave up her US citizenship in 2018) — would be 48.1482 million yuan (~US$6.7M) in 2025. However, on Feb 25, the references to Gu and Zhu in the budget description were replaced with “优秀冰雪运动员” (top winter sports athletes) (bottom of left pic) after the news was reported by Chinese news media and caused a stir. All news stories about the training budget have since been scrubbed from Chinese media / social media.
Also, Chinese news site Caixin reported on Feb 25 (right pic) that Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports’ training budgets for Gu and Zhu were respectively 47.076 million yuan (~US$6.54M) and 1.45 million yuan (~US$201K) in 2023 and 2024, but the article was swiftly deleted afterwards.
Zhu Yi’s father, Song-Chun Zhu (朱松纯) — the former director of UCLA’s Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning & Autonomy — returned to China in 2020 and is now at the forefront of China's race to develop the most advanced AI technologies: he’s the founder of the government-backed Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (北京通用人工智能研究院), dean of Peking University’s Institute of Artificial Intelligence and dean of its School of Intelligence Science & Technology, head of Tsinghua University’s General Artificial Intelligence Institute, and chief scientist at Peking University’s Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence (x.com/byron_wan/stat).
A thread about Zhu Yi 
x.com/byron_wan/stat
Eileen Gu (谷爱凌) and Zhu Yi (朱易; formerly Beverly Zhu) — two American-born Chinese athletes who’ve been representing China since a few years ago (Zhu reportedly gave up her US citizenship in 2018) — would be 48.1482 million yuan (~US$6.7M) in 2025. However, on Feb 25, the references to Gu and Zhu in the budget description were replaced with “优秀冰雪运动员” (top winter sports athletes) (bottom of left pic) after the news was reported by Chinese news media and caused a stir. All news stories about the training budget have since been scrubbed from Chinese media / social media.
Also, Chinese news site Caixin reported on Feb 25 (right pic) that Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports’ training budgets for Gu and Zhu were respectively 47.076 million yuan (~US$6.54M) and 1.45 million yuan (~US$201K) in 2023 and 2024, but the article was swiftly deleted afterwards.
Zhu Yi’s father, Song-Chun Zhu (朱松纯) — the former director of UCLA’s Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning & Autonomy — returned to China in 2020 and is now at the forefront of China's race to develop the most advanced AI technologies: he’s the founder of the government-backed Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (北京通用人工智能研究院), dean of Peking University’s Institute of Artificial Intelligence and dean of its School of Intelligence Science & Technology, head of Tsinghua University’s General Artificial Intelligence Institute, and chief scientist at Peking University’s Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence (x.com/byron_wan/stat).
A thread about Zhu Yi x.com/byron_wan/stat
