On January 5, 2016, the American "Forbes" magazine announced the 2016 list of "The World's 30 Most Potential Outstanding Musicians Under 30", and Deng Ziqi became the only person selected from Asia. On February 26, "Forbes" announced the list of "Asia's 30 Most Promising Cultural and Sports Stars Under 30 Years Old", and Deng Ziqi was the only Chinese singer on the list. From March to April, Deng Ziqi won 15 awards including Best Female Singer of the Year on the 6th Global Pop Music Gold Chart and Best Singer of the Year (Hong Kong and Taiwan) at the 2nd Cool Music Asia Festival for her album "New Heartbeat". From May 9th to 23rd, Deng Ziqi once again launched a live piano recording series, including his new personally created works "Song for You", "Painting", and "Goodbye", which re-interprets the rock melody with the piano. From May 27th to 30th, Deng Ziqi was invited by TAG Heuer to attend the 2016 F1 Monaco Grand Prix as a global brand ambassador. He also supported the Red Bull Racing Team and participated in the TAG Heuer new product launch conference.

On July 6, Deng Ziqi, as the "secret weapon" of Psy's team, joined China's first EDM electronic music reality show "Universal Heroes" jointly produced by Micro Whale VR and Canxing Production; July 11 On the same day, the "World Outstanding Chinese Youth Award Ceremony" was held in Hong Kong. Deng Ziqi appeared in a white dress. As the only singer and entertainer to win the "World Outstanding Chinese Youth Award" together with outstanding people in various fields; in July of the same year, Deng Ziqi Three EDM electronic music-style songs were also released, all of which are cover songs from the singer competition segment in the variety show "Heroes of the World". Among them, "Red Rose White Rose" is a cover of Taiyang's song "Eye, Nose, Mouth", with Deng Ziqi re-writing the lyrics. Sing, another song "Like You" is adapted from the BEYOND classic song, arranged by PSY (Uncle Psy), and re-interpreted by Deng Ziqi in a new EDM Mix version. It is also Deng Ziqi's first cross-border collaboration with a Korean team. And "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" is a typical "Deng-style" adaptation, which uses electronic dance music to interpret this heart-warming and touching song. Deng Ziqi's sexy and real voice gives this song new charm. .

On November 11, Deng Ziqi appeared at the "Double Eleven Carnival Night" and sang the electronic version of "Goodbye" to ignite the heated atmosphere of the party; on November 30, Deng Ziqi collaborated with many stars to record the 2016 The World AIDS Day charity song "The Sun in the Pupil" was released online for the first time; on December 2, Deng Ziqi won the Miguhui Best Popular Female Singer Award at the 10th Music Festival; on December 30, a science fiction adventure composed and sung by Deng Ziqi The Chinese theme song of the movie "Passengers" was officially released; on December 31, he attended the 2017 Hunan Satellite TV New Year's Eve Concert and sang "Light Years Away" and "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" song.

On January 6, 2017, Deng Ziqi's youth inspirational film "The Wind", which is Deng Ziqi's big-screen debut, was released nationwide. The film revolves around Deng Ziqi's 10 years of debut and tells the story of a young musician who is very popular among post-90s audiences. , how to go from a blockbuster to the peak in the Internet age, and then from the trough of despair to flying against the wind; on January 21, the 12th KKBOX Billboard was held at the Taipei Arena. Deng Ziqi wore a pure white spaghetti strap jumpsuit. , sang the songs "Bubble" and "Light Years Away", and won the Singer of the Year Award that night; on January 27, Deng Ziqi competed with Zhang Xinzhe and Huang Wanqiu at the Guangxi branch of the CCTV Year of the Rooster Spring Festival Gala *Sung the song "Songs from the Li River" together; in April, Deng Ziqi's third solo world tour was officially launched; in May, he performed the closing song "Peach Blossom" for the TV series "Ancient Love Songs"; in June, he performed the closing song "Peach Blossom Nuo" for the TV series "Ancient Love Songs"; "The Legend of Chu Qiao" presents the ending song "The Flame of the Heart". On August 9, she won the "Artist of the Year", "My Favorite Female Singer (Hong Kong)" and "National Media Jointly Recommended Singer" at the 2017 Chinese Golden Melody Awards. At the same time, her song "Light Years Away" won the "Top Ten Chinese golden song".