Draft:Wang Jibing

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Wang.

Wang Jibing
王计兵
Wang in 2026
Born	November 1969 (age 56) Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
Occupations	food delivery driver poet
Spouse	Guo Yiyun
Children	3
Writing career
Pen name	Shi Huang
Language	Chinese
Notable work	Man in a Hurry

Wang Jibing (Chinese: 王计兵; pinyin: Wángjìbīng; born November 1969), also known by his pen name Shi Huang, is a Chinese food delivery driver and poet. Widely known as the "delivery rider poet", he won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2026.

Born in Xuzhou to a peasant family, he dropped out of high school to help his family. After leaving his hometown, he worked multiple jobs before working as a food delivery driver in 2019. After an experience with a customer in 2019, he wrote his frustrations in a poem titled Man in a Hurry. The poem became viral in China after another poet named Chen Chaohua shared his poem on Sina Weibo. Afterwards, he released many of his poetry collections under various publishing houses after his popularity boom. In 2026, he won the Lu Xun Literary Prize because of his work, Flying Low.

Early life

Wang was born in November 1969 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, to Wang Bingxian and Bao Chengzhen, who were a peasant family. Because of financial hardships and his father's orders, he had to drop out of school when he was 14 during his second year in junior high to work on the family farm and learned martial arts. At the age of eighteen, he left his hometown to work with a contractor from his village in Pizhou.

One day, in 1991, while returning to his hometown, Wang stumbled upon a magazine with a submission address. In his early twenties, he wrote a short story titled Small Car Enters the Village (Chinese: 小车进村), detailing the daily life of rural northern Jiangsu, which was accepted on the first try and published in the Zhengzhou-based magazine Baihuayuan. In 1992, he was writing a novel in a small hut, becoming so engrossed that he didn't come out to do farm work for several months. His father later burned the 200,000-word manuscript after Wang left the hut because he wanted to breathe some fresh air. Because of this, he didn't talk to his father for several months.

Around 2002, at the age of 33, Wang left Pizhou for Kunshan. Nine years after their marriage to Guo Yiyun, he and his family later settled in Kunshan, where they stayed for at least 20 years. After several relocations, he opened up a supermarket called the "Jinyan shop" in the Xincheng·Yu Garden near the Kunshan South railway station. Between 2009 and the years that followed, Wang work in a multitude of jobs, where he would collect scrap metal, build adobe houses, and selling fruit wholesale.

Career

Wang started writing poetry around 2008. In 2009, his family purchased a computer, which provided a space for his manuscript. He started writing in Qzone (called QQSpace in China) under the online alias "Zhantai", but would later be introduced to online poetry forums by a netizen named "Hengzhi Lingxiang". In 2017, he began to submit his poems to various magazines, later adopting the pen name "Shi Huang", commemorating his before years spending his time scavenging. In 2018, Wang Jibing became a member of the Xuzhou Writers Association.

In 2019, due to the difficulties in supermarket operations, Wang registered as a food delivery driver at what was then called Ele.me at the age of 50, making him the oldest delivery person at the station. In 2022, he wrote a poem titled Man in a Hurry, which details the life of a food delivery driver. According to Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, the poem was inspired by his experience in 2019, when he was given two wrong addresses, spending many hours running between three residential buildings and up multiple flights of stairs many times. He wrote his frustrations about the experience into the poem.

The poem quickly became viral, attracting tens of thousands of likes after being shared by Chen Chaohua on Sina Weibo. Users praised the poem, calling it a "song of the laborers," making it his most famous work. Several publishing houses approached Wang in the hopes of publishing a book, where Wang would pick Zhengu Books to release his poetry collection under the name Man in a Hurry: Poems of a Food Delivery Rider, containing over 180 poems made by Wang. The book was later published in 2023 Later, two more collections, titled I Clumsily Love This World and Low Flight would later release.

In December 2022, Wang announced in a People's Daily Online article that he became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in November of the same year.

In January 2025, Wang was invited by the production team for the 2025 CMG Spring Festival Gala to introduce Faye Wong's latest single My Gifts from the World . His fourth poem collection, titled Holding a Beam of Light from the World, was released that same month. In June 2025, he was nominated to serve as the vice president of the Xuzhou City National Reading Promotion Association.

At the end of January 2026, Wang's collection of non-fiction essays, titled Chingzen, , named after his mother, was officially released. On July 15 that same year, Flying Low won him the poetry prize in the 9th Lu Xun Literary Prize. Despite winning the award, he said he is not willing to quit his job and is planning to work until he's 60.

Chow, explaining how Wang's work A Man In A Hurry resonated with many people, exclaimed that it's "because everybody has this experience."

Personal life

Wang is married to Guo Yiyun. As of 2022, they have three children, with his eldest daughter having two children.

Publications

• 2023: Man in a Hurry: Poems of a Food Delivery Rider, Zhengu Books
• 2023: I Clumsily Love This World, Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House Co., Ltd.
• 2023: Flying Low, China National Publications Import and Export Co., Ltd.
• 2025: Holding a Beam of Light from the World, People's Literature Publishing House
• 2026: Chengzhen, Guangxi Normal University Press