Weiming is a Chinese-born, New Zealand artist and sculptor. Chen was commissioned by the New Zealand government to create a 3-meter bronze statue of Sir Edmund Hillary in 1991. In 2008, he created a 6.4 meters high replica of the Goddess of Democracy that currently stands in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chen created a large-scale relief representation of the Tiananmen massacre in 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the massacre, displayed in Hong Kong during protests in 2010.