| Lu Rongyu | |
 Lu Rongyu at the age of 109. | |
| Unvalidated |
Lu Rongyu [Chinese: 吴志成] (born 18 July 1911) is a Chinese supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Biography
Early Life
Lu Rongyu claims to have been born on 18 July 1911 in Yixing County, Wuxi, Jiangsu, Qing dynasty (now China). She studied at Nanjing faculty of medicine, and became a midwife.
Lu married at the age of 25, and had 7 children (5 boys and 2 girls). Her oldest son was aged 84 in 2020, and the youngest child was aged 73.
After the liberation in 1949, Lu moved to Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Later Life
In 2012, Lu went to a dental clinic in Hangzhou to have dentures. In 2014, she celebrated her 103rd birthday (104th by East Asian counting) in Xinbailu Restaurant with her family. At the time, she was reported to have energy, and to like the German team of football. She drinks a glass of red vine each day.
In October 2017, Lu was reported to be the tenth-oldest living person in Hangzhou. In October 2020, aged 109, she was reported to be the oldest living person in Hangzhou. At the time, she lived in Weikang nursing home in Hangzhou, with her daughter Hu Xiaoyun [Chinese: 胡肖云] (her second child, aged 82 in 2020). She was still using WeChat (a Chinese social network).
Lu Rongyu currently lives in Weikang nursing home, in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, at the age of 112 years, 275 days.
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References
- 曾波梅：清水出芙蓉，天然去雕饰 杭州市归国华侨联合会, 4 January 2013
- 路蓉毓老太太昨天过104岁生日 她也是德国队球迷哦 长三角城市网, 20 July 2014
- 杭州百岁老人最多的是萧山区 Hangzhou Net (杭州网), 28 October 2017
- 109岁!杭州最长寿老人微信头像亮了,还能穿针缝衣!她的长寿秘诀是... 环球网, 23 October 2020
- 杭州市百岁老人有1412人 Popular Municipal Government of Hangzhou, 17 October 2021