Wang Jibing Wins Lu Xun Literary Prize

Exam-focused facts from the 22 July 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Wang Jibing, a 57-year-old food delivery rider from Jiangsu province, won the Lu Xun Literary Prize for his poetry collection "Low Flight".
The Lu Xun Literary Prize is named after Lu Xun, widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese literature.
Wang Jibing left school as a teenager due to financial hardship and worked various jobs including construction and scavenging before becoming a delivery rider.
His poem "Man in a Hurry" went viral in 2022, and he published his first poetry collection "Man in a Hurry: Poems of a Food Delivery Rider" in 2023.
The monetary award for the Lu Xun Literary Prize stood at 100,000 Chinese yuan as of 2014.