Jiemin was the first women to conduct operas in both La Fenice and San Carlo opera houses, and her Opera DVD Cavalleria Rusticana with San Carlo opera was released in 2008 and broadcast by RAI. She first studied piano and percussion at the age of seven and graduated in orchestral conducting and composition from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1995. That same year she was appointed as Resident Conductor of the Shanghai Opera House, and in 1998 worked at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence as an assistant to Maestro Zubin Mehta for the production of Turandot in the Forbidden City in Beijing.