Shi Ping

Shi was born Shi Eryi () on 1 November 1911, in Dayao, Yunnan in Imperial China. Between February and August 1931, he studied at the University of Nanking, before moving to Zhejiang University in September of the same year, where he studied until June 1936. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1938, and joined as a soldier and fought with the New Fourth Army in 1941 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. At the time of his death, he was the most senior surviving member of the New Fourth Army. Shi became vice president of Beijing Agricultural University in 1953, holding the post until 1960. From 1978 to 1983, he was the CCP committee secretary for East China Normal University. Shi served as secretary general of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress from 1983 to 1985. ==Personal life and death==

Shi Ping met his wife, Yang Lin, at Zhejiang University. At the time, Yang was one of the key organizers of revolutionary student movements in Hangzhou. She was arrested and imprisoned by the Nationalist government, accused of being a Communist Party member. She died in a Hangzhou prison just 18 days after giving birth to their son, Shi Huailin, on 23 January 1935. Their son became a professor at Zhengzhou Institute of Technology but died in a car accident in September 1987. Shi's grandson is biophysicist and university president Shi Yigong. Shi died on 29 June 2024, at the age of . He had been the world's oldest living man following the death of 114-year-old Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela on 2 April 2024, though his age claim was not verified until after his death. Upon his validation in August 2024, he became the first ever verified supercentenarian from China. Shi was the last known verified living person to be born during the Qing dynasty. Following Shi's death, then 111-year-old John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom became the world's oldest man. ==References==