Jian-Min (Jimmy) Hao earned his MFA. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a principal dancer with Guiyang Ballet, China. During this time, he was awarded Best Performer in 1979 at the Guiyang Dance Festival. Then, He became a faculty member for the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy after he graduated from there, and toured internationally as a dancer with the Youth Company of the Academy. He was twice awarded for excellence in teaching and three times awarded for outstanding in choreography at the various Dance Competitions in China, and five times he received awards for outstanding contribution in multi-cultural program from the Chinese Culture Association in US. In 1994, one of his works received an honor to participate in the final gala performance at the American College Dance Festival and in 2001 Jimmy was nominee for Mayor’s Arts Awards (Mayor George P. Wuerch) in Anchorage Alaska. In2014, he was invited as a special guest by Beijing Dance Academy to attend the fifth International Ballet Competition. His choreographic works were presented in China, Japan, South Korea, India, France and United States. He has been a guest artist, a ballet master, a professor and director at the Beijing Dance Academy and Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Shanghai Normal University, The Yuzhiya International Ballet School in Tokyo, UCLA, Stephens College, University of Missouri-Columbia, Los Angeles Modern Dance and Ballet, Alaska Dance Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Arizona Youth Ballet, Bay Pointe Ballet of San Francisco and Beach Ballet of Tijuana, including many professional schools and companies worldwide since 1984.