Wang Shi climbed Mount Everest for the first time on May 22, 2003. At 14:37 on May 22, 2003, Wang Shi successfully climbed Mount Everest. At the age of 52, he became the oldest climber in China to climb Mount Everest. Wang Shi was diagnosed by a doctor that he might spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, but he successfully climbed 11 peaks in the next four years.

Wang Shi, male, born in January 1951, originally from Jinzhai, Anhui Province, was born in Liuzhou, Guangxi. He graduated from Lanzhou Railway Institute with a major in water supply and drainage. He is the founder of Vanke Enterprise Co., Ltd. and currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of the group and concurrently serves as China He is the executive director of the Real Estate Association, deputy director of the Urban Housing Development Committee of the China Real Estate Association, vice president of the Shenzhen Real Estate Association, and vice president of the Shenzhen General Chamber of Commerce. In September 2014, during the Incheon Asian Games, he defeated his Japanese opponent Naotake Okubo 18-7 in the vote for the chairman of the Asian Rowing Federation and was successfully elected for a five-year term.