Beloved poet hits the road again, this time never to return

Chinese poet Wang Guozhen, who was quoted by President Xi Jinping in his public speech, passed away in Beijing on Sunday.

Wang, whose poems became a sensation in the 1990s, died of liver cancer at the age of 59.

His passing has brought him back into focus across the country's traditional and social media, with people mourning and also debating his place among China's contemporary poets.