Yingping has wished to become a professional film director since she was 18 years old. After she graduated from MA Performance Design and Practice in Central Saint Martins, she felt she was ready to apply to her dream school – London Film School.

During her studies at LFS, her projects were selected from terms 1-4, and her film was selected as the showcase film in term 1.After term 6 she went back to China and became a CCTV (China Central Television) documentary director, directing episode four of the documentaries Chinese Warcraft. After this project she went back to her hometown Chengdu, Sichuan, and filmed her LFS graduate film White Paper Flower (28 mins). Now she owns a filmmaking company in Chengdu and films many commercials, short films, and documentaries as the director.