Xiao Zhan announced his first solo concert tour on October 13 through a post on his personal Weibo account, writing that it was time to meet at "Exit·Us." The tour marks the first time in his ten years in the industry that he has staged a concert series under his own name, according to 中华网娱乐.
The opening legs are set for Nanjing and Shanghai, ThePaper.cn reports. Damai, the ticketing platform handling sales, has moved to crack down on scalpers ahead of the on-sale date, 中华网娱乐 reports.
Why it matters
The run-up to the sale has drawn attention less for the tickets themselves than for what appeared on secondhand platforms before any official sale opened. Listings advertising proxy purchases and reserved internal seats circulated online, with prices far above face value. The case has become a test of how forcefully a major platform can act against resale activity around one of the country's most in-demand acts.
Markups reported before tickets went on sale
According to 中华网娱乐, users on social platforms posted that ticketing companies were offering to buy tickets on customers' behalf. An inner-floor seat priced at 1,960 yuan was quoted at sharply higher rates, with front-area seats reportedly running into the tens of thousands of yuan and some of the closest seats priced even higher. Stand tickets also carried premiums of 3,500 to 5,000 yuan, the outlet reported.
When one user asked whether the quoted price included the ticket itself, the seller replied that it did not, adding that Xiao Zhan tickets were expensive, according to 中华网娱乐.
The reports of proxy buying and reserved seats surfaced before the official sale, which is what prompted Damai's enforcement effort. The platform has not disclosed the specific measures it is taking.
A decade into a career, a first solo tour
Xiao Zhan's rise to the top tier of Chinese entertainment followed the 2019 drama "The Untamed," which 中华网娱乐 notes drew female viewers across age groups and pushed him and co-star Wang Yibo from modest industry profiles to headline status. Since then, the outlet reports, the two have regularly appeared near the top of entertainment rankings, taken on a heavy slate of commercial endorsements, and held fan meetings in China and abroad, with front-row seats reselling for tens of thousands of yuan and drawing buyers.
The tour announcement follows a busy production schedule. Xiao Zhan returned to Qingdao to continue filming the suspense drama "Ten Days to the End," 中华网娱乐 reports. He arrived at Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis in early April 2026 to play the male lead, Qi Xia, on a shoot of roughly 100 days expected to wrap in July. He left only briefly to accept an award, the outlet reports: after a ten-hour filming day on May 20, he flew to Macau overnight for a film festival, walked the red carpet on May 21, and returned to Qingdao immediately afterward.
His personal history has also drawn fresh attention alongside the tour news. 中华网娱乐 reports that his parents had originally settled on the name Xiao Zan, with "zan" chosen for its auspicious meaning of being praised. His mother reconsidered because the character has many strokes and worried a young child would struggle to write it, so the family settled on his current name. Xiao Zhan is his real name, not a stage name, the outlet notes.
Xiao Zhan interacts with fans regularly through small, everyday posts. A previous update about dumplings for the winter solstice reached trending topics and was picked up by 20 state media outlets, according to 中华网娱乐. He has also shared persimmon tangyuan, using the fruit's association with wishes coming true to send greetings to fans — an example, the outlet says, of his engagement with traditional culture and the warmth of his exchanges with followers.
What to watch
The immediate question is whether Damai's measures hold once tickets for the Nanjing and Shanghai dates go on sale, and whether the proxy-buying listings that appeared before the sale disappear or persist. Also worth watching is whether the platform details its enforcement steps publicly, given how closely fans and the wider industry are tracking this first solo run.
