Ruby Lin the best promising producer. Also as actress, she is in a different class from others." In addition, Youku Tudou Inc, the largest video-sharing website in China, bought copyright of TV series and films that were produced by Lin. Lin officially announced the news during the 18th Shanghai Television Festival. In August 8, 2012, Lin was honored as Best Producer at the 2012 Asian Idol Awards for "The Glamorous Imperial Concubine". On December 2012, Lin was announced as one of the highest paid Chinese celebrities of the year, ranking 5th. She managed to earn over 90 million RMB this year through
Chinese television drama have been the dominant genre on prime-time television. The trend climaxed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with a large number of palace (also known as "Qing") dramas shown on television. Popular Chinese television dramas, such as "Nirvana in Fire", "The Journey of Flower", "Eternal Love", "The Princess Weiyoung", "Just One Smile Is Very Alluring", "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "Scarlet Heart" and more often garner billions of views among China's most popular video websites, iQiyi, Youku and QQ Video. Some dramas have been so popular and widely acclaimed that they were remade into different languages, as well as