[3][4] Lang is the main character in the 2020 biographical film Leap,[5] in which she is played by actress Gong Li.

[9] In 1987, Lang moved to Los Angeles with Bai to study and serve as an assistant volleyball coach at the University of New Mexico.

[11] Nicknamed the "Iron Hammer",[1][11] Lang was a member of the Chinese national team that won the gold medal over the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

[2] In 1995, Lang became the head coach of the Chinese national team and eventually guided the squad to the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and second place at the 1998 World Championships in Japan.

Lang allowed her contract to run out later that year, citing that she wanted to coach a club so as to spend more time with her family.

[18] She became the head coach of the China women's national volleyball team for the second time in 2013 and won the World Cup in Japan in 2015.

[19] On August 21, 2016, Lang Ping guided the Chinese national team to the gold medal at 2016 Rio Olympics.

With this victory, Lang Ping became the first person in volleyball history, male or female, to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games as a player with the Chinese national team in Los Angeles 1984 and as the Chinese national team head coach in Rio 2016.