Bingbing Li has joined the cast of Michael Bay's upcoming sci-fi sequel Transformers 4.

The addition marks the first Chinese actor to join the project with numerous more to follow. She will soon be joined by other famous actors as well as a number of newcomers being recruited from a scouting competition.

Bingbing Li is best known for playing Ada Wong in Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution. She will also be seen as Blink in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Production is slated to begin later in the year