??Liu Xinyi is a film actor and producer born in 1952 in Qingdao, Shandong Province. He was found by Ding Yinnan, a noted director by chance in 1981, thus got the chance of acting a young man who “lends” his fiancee to others for money in the movie Backlight. Later, he played some roles in films like Blood Is Always Hot, Strange Encounters, Quartet on Wheels, The Happy Bachelors, etc.In 1984, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award of the 7th Popular Cinema Hundred Flowers Awards for his performance of the role Shi Qilong, the proud, shy and generous group leader in The Happy Bachelors.??