Wang Keqin (, born November 14, 1964), is an influential Chinese muckraking reporter, founder of charity Da Ai Qing Chen or Love Save Pneumoconiosis and blogger. He is also a professor at Peking University in Beijing. Early life Wang was born in the Yongdeng County in the Gansu Province of the People's Republic of China. Before becoming a reporter, Wang was a farmer in Gansu. It was here where he discovered journalism in the mid-80s. He received about (, or approximately ) for each article he wrote, or as he said, enough for six bowls of noodles. He began by writing propaganda stories for the local media. In 1989 he began working for the Gansu Economics Daily. After publishing his story that uncovered a fraudulent securities company, he was hired by the Beijing-based China Economic Times, where he worked as chief reporter until forced to resign in 2011 following the vaccines story. Journalism Wang is known for carrying a small box containing a sponge soaked in red ink, which he uses to collect fingerprints from witnesses to confirm their agreement on the witness statements he compiles. "You have to make the evidence iron-cast," he explains. In 2002, Wang published a story exposing the "stranglehold" that Chinese taxi companies have on their drivers. This influenced Premier Wen Jiabao to order a cleanup of the taxi industry. On November 30, 2005, Wang published a story about an AIDS epidemic in the Henan province caused by poor sterilization of needles when collecting paid blood donations. On March 8, 2010, he and a student were physically and verbally attacked while trying to visit Yuan Weijing, wife of imprisoned civil and political rights activist Chen Guangcheng. As a result, Reporters Without Borders urged the Shandong provincial government to investigate the incident and stop it from reoccurring with other visitors. Securities fraud story On February 3, 2001, Wang published in the Gansu Economics Daily a "groundbreaking" report uncovering a huckster securities company that had defrauded customers of millions of dollars. The company had committed securities fraud by displaying stock tickers and computer screens with the names of real companies but with fake investment returns. On April 29 of the same year, the paper was closed down by the provincial publicity department because of this story. When the paper was allowed to reopen four months later, local officials told Wang that he was no longer allowed to