[1][2] Ruiming was born on April 26, 1888, into a peasant family in Fengwei village, in the eastern suburbs of Rongcheng, the county seat of Jieyang, Guangdong province.
[3][2] After graduating in 1908, Xing Ruiming returned to Rongcheng, where Chen Meixian had started another church-sponsored literacy class for girls.
[5][3][2][6] Xing Ruiming had thousands of students, including Professor Xie Haiyan, president of the Nanjing Academy of Fine Arts.
For the next three years, she visited various rural churches in Jieyang and Puning counties, focusing her efforts on women's education and evangelism in the Chaoshan region.
[1][2] From 1935, Xing Ruiming went to work at the church-run Jieyang Truth Hospital (真理醫院) as a chaplain, a position she held for 15 years.
[2] As the political environment changed in the People's Republic of China, Xing Ruiming focused more on helping to raise her grandchildren and looking after her elderly mother, but continued to preach the gospel whenever the opportunity arose.
Xing lived frugally, keeping a limited wardrobe, and donating her old clothes after receiving new outfits from her children and grandchildren.