Zheng Weitong

Zheng Weitong is a Chinese former xiangqi grandmaster.

Career

In 2014, Zheng won the National Individual Championship and earned the Grandmaster title, becoming the first champion born in the 1990s.
In 2015, Zheng won both the national championship and the World Xiangqi Championship.
In 2020, he began studying business administration at Tsinghua University.
In October 2023, he won the men's individual gold medal in xiangqi in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, becoming the 200th Chinese gold medalist in that event.
In January 2025, Zheng, alongside 40 other xiangqi players, were penalized for match-fixing and bribery. Zheng was given a lifetime suspension and was stripped of his grandmaster title. At the time of the suspension, Zheng was the No. 2 ranked xiangqi player in the world.