Zhu Yanjun, 50, is the runner-up of the 2023 Chinese Poetry Competition. After graduating from junior high school in 1992, he stopped his schooling and left his hometown, a village in Jingning county of Northwest China's Gansu province, and began to work as a migrant worker.
Zhu Yanjun looks through a book in the library of Jingning County, northwest China s Gansu Province, on April 10, 2023. Zhu Yanjun, 50, is the runner-up of the 2023 Chinese Poetry Competition.