Cang Kejia's works have won many awards and have been translated into many languages, which have a wide influence at home and abroad. Known as the "peasant poet".
Cang Kejia loves the Party, the people and socialism, and earnestly studies Marxism–Leninism, thoughts, theories and important thoughts. In his creative career of more than 70 years, no matter during the revolutionary war years or during the period of socialist revolution, construction and reform and opening up, he cared about the future of the country, the destiny of the nation and the development of literature with great enthusiasm, enthusiastically eulogized the cause of revolution, construction, reform and opening up and socialist modernization led by the Party, and actively advocated writers to go deep into life with short poems, old poems, essays, critical letters and novels. He adheres to the direction of "choose one from two" and the policy of "letting a hundred flowers blossom", unites and cares for middle-aged and old-aged poets and enthusiastically cultivates young poets. He witnessed the whole history of China's new poetry from birth to development, and made outstanding and indelible contributions to the development of China's new poetry.
Cang Kejia's life is a life of unremitting pursuit of light, a life of consciously expressing the times and serving the people wholeheartedly, and a life of diligent writing, painstaking efforts and constant climbing of artistic peaks. He is keen in thinking, clear in love and hate, kind and upright, optimistic and open-minded, decent in style, simple in style, approachable, open-minded and cheerful, frugal in life and strict with himself. He devoted his whole life's energy and painstaking efforts to the literary cause of the party and the people selflessly.
Mr. Cang Kejia died in 2004 and was buried in the Overseas Chinese Cemetery in Beijing Wanfoyuan.