Shi Ping

Shi Ping (; born Shi Eryi ; 1 November 1911 – 29 June 2024) was a Chinese academic, political administrator, and supercentenarian. He is posthumously recognised as having been the world's oldest verified living man from the death of Venezuela's Juan Vicente Pérez on 2 April 2024, until his own death.

Biography 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, Shi's grandson is Shi Yigong, a biophysicist and the president of Westlake University in Hangzhou.

Shi died on 29 June 2024, at the age of . He had been the world's oldest verified 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.