Shanghai Film Studio
After 1949, Qin Yi became an actress of the newly established Shanghai Film Studio, and was appointed deputy head of the Actors' Theatre Troupe. She played the leading roles in many films including "Railway Guerrillas", "Woman Basketball Player No. 5", "Lin Zexu", "Song of the Youth", and "Loyal Overseas Chinese", as well as supporting roles in many others. She remained one of the most popular film actresses in China throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and Premier Zhou Enlai called her "the most beautiful woman in China".