When China hosted the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in her home city Nanjing, Shen won five gold medals and broke three world junior records in swimming.

Shen helped the Chinese foursome scorch the final field of swimmers with two astonishing world junior records each in the mixed 4×100 m freestyle (3:27.02) and in the girls' 4×100 m medley (4:03.58).

[8][9] One month later, at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, Shen added four more golds to her career tally in her respective events, most notably in both freestyle relay and sprint.

On the first day of the competition, Shen posted a 53.58 split on the second leg to put the Chinese squad ahead to a marvelous victory in the women's 4×100 m freestyle relay, with a time of 3:37.25.

[16] At the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Shen helped the Chinese squad secured a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle with a combined time of 7:49.10, and then pulled off a lead on the freestyle anchor leg (53.00) to deliver the solid foursome of Fu Yuanhui, Shi Jinglin, and Lu Ying a blazing fast finish in 3:54.41 to claim the gold in the 4×100 m medley relay, just over two seconds away of the current meet record set by her team in 2009.