Luo Ying, a Chinese poet and successful entrepreneur, has just published his third poetry anthology, Shattering Collection, drawing wide attention from Chinese literary circles.

Luo Ying was born Huang Nu-bo in the 1950s in northwest China's Yinchuan City, the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. After graduating from Peking University with a degree in Chinese, he worked some years with the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee. Later, he stumbled into a business career.

Due to his educational background and rich life experiences, he has enjoyed writing poetry in his spare time and has written many influential poems. In the 1980s, he published his first collection, Don’t Love Me Again, and in the 1990s, his second collection, Refusing Melancholy, came out.

Professor Xie Mian who teaches in Peking University said Luo Ying is not only a successful entrepreneur but also an esteemed young poet. He said Luo Ying's poetry not only possesses great cultural meaning but also shows his deep life experiences as well as spiritual pursuits.

Some other famous Chinese poets and critics also said Luo Ying's Shattering Collection was full of fresh and colorful artistic conceptions. The style of the whole book shows the poet's life attitude toward truth and kindness as well as beauty in his spiritual world, they said.

(Xinhua News Agency October 8, 2003)