From 1994 to 1999, they frequently appeared in international competitions. In the 2003 World Championships, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo jointly presented the first and most classic program "Turandot" in their careers. Puccini's Turandot tells a legendary story of China that happened in the imagination of westerners. Turandot brought a world champion to Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo.
At the 2004 World Championships, Shen Hongbo brought a set of free skating program "Nutcracker". Under the scoring system at that time, I got a perfect score of 12. Tchaikovsky's music has a strong appeal to people. At Christmas, the little girl got a nutcracker. In the evening, she dreamed that the nutcracker turned into a prince and took her on a fantastic and happy journey. However, Zhao Shen chose a duet at the end of the second act.
In 2004-05, Shen Hongbo chose the soundtrack of 1997 movie "The Song Sisters". However, because the coach thought that the climax was not grand enough, they gave up this program in the following Olympic season and changed it to Puccini's other masterpiece, Madame Butterfly.
The farewell work Meditation in 2007, as they say, is a review and summary of career.
In 20 10, they returned to the Winter Olympics with Adagio from albinoni.