China's Got Talent (series 2)

Auditions were held in Shanghai Concert Hall. During the third audition recorded on May 9, Judge Gao Xiaosong was detained by Beijing police on drunk driving charges and was sentenced to six months in jail. Taiwanese music composer Antonio Chen was announced as a replacement temporarily. Audition clips with either Gao or Chen were broadcast respectively.[2][3] On November 22, Jerry Huang was announced to be a judge for the rest of this series.[4]

The show was pre-empted on November 29, 2011 due to the live telecast of the 2011 Mnet Asian Music Awards.

The semifinals began on January 3, 2012. The Great Hall of the People in Beijing was the venue for the semifinals. Yang Lan, a very popular Chinese host joins Zhou Libo and Annie Yi as judges.

Rules

A media jury are involved. Basketball star, Yao Ming was invited as a jury member in the first semifinals only. Yao's votes will be added to the media jury's votes for the overall votes. The most votes from the jury's votes will be automatically be in the finals. For second finalist, each of three judges has a chance of giving 10 votes to any one of the 7 remaining contestants. Contestant who gets the most votes advance to the final. For the third finalist, voting is based on best of three.

Key	Judges' choice for third place	Advanced to the finals. Highest votes of the night	Finished in second place with the judges votes	Finished in third place; Winning the judges' choice.	Finished in fourth place; Losing the judges choice.

Italics indicate the second stage where each judges gave 10 points to their favorites. The contestants with the most votes combined with the jury points and judges' points will be the second finalist of the week.

Week 1 (January 3 & 10, 2012)

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Order	Performer	Act Description	Jury's Votes (of 110)	Judges' Choices
				Yang	Yi	Zhou
1	Countryside 456	Dance troupe	53+10(Yao)	—	—	—
2	Hu Qizhi	Street Performer	96+9(Yao)	—	—	—
3	Cai Hongping	Singer	73+9(Yao)+10(Yi)+10(Zhou)	—	—	—
4	Lu Yulong	Technological performance artist	42+7(Yao)	—	—	—
5	Zheng Guigui	Disabled pianist	84+10(Yao)		—	—
6	Pang Tak-Ming	Escape Artist	67+9(Yao)	—	—	—
7	Wang Aifeng	Singer	26+(Yao did not give the votes)	—	—	—
8	Uudam	Folk Singer	73+10(Yao)+10(Yang)	—

Week 2 (January 17 & 31, 2012)

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Order	Performer	Act Description	Jury's Votes (of 100)	Judges' Choices
				Yang	Yi	Zhou
1	Bai Shuying	Michael Jackson impersonator	84	—	—
2	Wu Yongqing	Singer	29	—	—	—
3	Zhuo Jun	Popper	96	—	—	—
4	Tang Kangmin	Yi traditional instrument performer	78	—	—	—
5	An Dong	Strength Act	74+10(Yi)+10(Zhou)	—	—	—
6	Xiang Yanhong	Opera Singer	60	—	—	—
7	Kungfu Pop	Kungfu troupe	75+10(Yang)			—
8	Xi Yue	Singer	30	—	—	—

World-renowned and Britain's Got Talent runner up, Susan Boyle perform two songs; "Who I Was Born To Be" and "I Dreamed a Dream" at Shanghai Stadium.[15] Also Britain's Got Talent finalist Razy Gogonea performed his Matrix routine. Popular Mandopop singer Han Geng also performed his song "In A Dream."

Rules

Before the final 6 acts performed one last time, the judges picked two more contestants from the semifinals to the finals for second chance. They were Pang Tak-Ming and Tang Kangmin. Each 8 acts will perform for the judges and the judges will decide who will make it to the next stage. It is based on best of three. The second stage is by text voting by the Chinese public and it will determine the final four. The third stage will determine who is the top 2 and this is picked by the judges. The last stage, 100 selected jury will determine who is the winner. The individual who reaches 51 points will declared winner.[16]

Key	Yes to Second Stage	No to Second Stage	Winner	2nd Place	Reached Final Four

Order	Performer	Act Description	Jury's Votes (of 100)-Final 2	Judges' Choices-1st stage
				Huang	Yi	Zhou
1	Kungfu Pop	Kungfu troupe	Not in top 2
2	Cai Hongping	Singer	49
3	Hu Qizhi	Street Artist	Not in top 2
4	Tang Kangmin	Yi traditional instrument performer	Not in top 2
5	Zhuo Jun	Popper	51
6	Pang Tak-Ming	Escape Artist	Not in top 2
7	An Dong	Strength Act	Not in top 2
8	Uudam	Singer	Not in top 2