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Hua Qianfang, a young online writer, was recently elected vice chairman of the Writers' Association of Fushun, northeast China's Liaoning Province.

Hua, whose real name is Ning Xueming, was born in 1978 in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province. He worked as a migrant laborer far away from his hometown after graduating from middle school in the early 1990s. Then he returned to become a full-time farmer, and started to write articles on the Internet in his spare time.

Hua is one of the representatives of online writers that emphasize generating positive energy concerning patriotic values on the Internet. Owing to his articles, he has accrued millions of fans. On October 17, Hua was one of the two Internet writers who attended a seminar hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping for prominent figures in modern Chinese art and literature.