Huang Shuqin, a native of Panyu in South China'sGuangdong Province, was born in Shanghai in 1940. Huang graduated from the Director Department ofBeijing Film Academyin 1964.

Huang's works are characterized by her focus on the common people. She thinks the movie could only resonate among the people when it expresses the joy and anger, pleasure and sorrow of the most ordinary people. Meanwhile, she follows her won sharp-cut artistic feature in the first place, and then tries to get the acknowledgement from the audience.

With great passion and enthusiasm, almost all her works have the themes about ordinary life. Her criteria for choosing the scripts attach great importance on both social significance and high artistic taste. For instance her movieWoman Human Demonin 1987 deeply discussed the issue of women by depicting the life of a girl born into the world ofPeking Opera. The work has won many awards.