China's Angelina Jolie, Yao Chen is an activist actress with a platform. Yao has used her stunning social media following - 77.9 million Weibo followers and counting - to campaign against unspoken issues including China's smog problem, food contamination and government censorship. The star of rom-coms and action flicks, Yao's powerful voice goes far beyond her popular presence. In 2013, she was named a UN Refugee Agency Goodwill Ambassador, the first from China, to help highlight refugee issues for the Chinese-speaking world.

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