Cao Hui is a character in the TV series Deng Xiaoping at the Turn of History. In the play, she was set as a newspaper cadre, representing the conservative cadres of the times with rigid thoughts.

Tian Zhiyuan and her husband are completely two extremes. Tian Zhiyuan belongs to the officer type, always ahead of his own situation, while Cao Hui is conservative, which leads to their divorce. But later, she gradually realized her mistake, and finally Hotan Zhiyuan remarried.