| Shi Ping | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Office1: | Vice President of China Agricultural University |
| Term Start1: | 1953 |
| Term End1: | 1960 |
| Office2: | Secretary of East China Normal University |
| Term Start2: | 1978 |
| Term End2: | 1983 |
| Office3: | Secretary General of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress of the Chinese Communist Party |
| Term Start3: | 1983 |
| Term End3: | 1985 |
| Birth Name: | Shi Eryi |
| Birth Date: | 1 November 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Dayao County, Yunnan, Qing dynasty |
| Death Date: | (aged) |
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
| Children: | 1 |
| Relatives: | Shi Yigong (grandson) |
| Death Place: | Xuhui District, Shanghai, China |
Shi Ping (Chinese: 施平; 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.[1]
Shi was born Shi Eryi [2] on 1 November 1911, in Dayao, Yunnan.[3] [4] Between February and August 1931 he studied at the University of Nanking, moving to Zhejiang University in September of the same year and studied there until June 1936.
He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1938,[3] 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.
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 January 23, 1935. Shi Ping remained a widower for the next 89 years until his death. Their only son, Shi Huailin, became a professor at Zhengzhou Institute of Technology but died in a car accident on September 21, 1987.[5] Shi's grandson is biophysicist and university president Shi Yigong.[6]
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.[7] He was the last male to be alive at the time of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, as well as last male to be alive before the end of the Qing dynasty. Following Shi's death, then 111-year-old John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom became the world’s oldest man.