Wang Xing was born in 1979 in Longyan, Fujian, China. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering in 2001 and received a master's degree in 2005. In 2005, he created a Chinese version of Facebook called Xiaonei ("On Campus"). The site was a hit but Wang had to sell it off due to financial problems. In 2007, he created a Chinese version of Twitter called Fanfou. In 2010, he founded the Chinese group-buying site Meituan, which was based on the business model of Groupon. Meituan became one of the largest online and on-demand delivery platforms in the world, with over 290 million active users as of 2018.