Career
He currently holds the record as the youngest ever goalscorer in top tier Chinese football aged just 16 years and 317 days. Huang Bowen started his football career with Beijing Guoan when he was promoted to the club"s first team in the 2004 season. By the end of his debut season, he"d played in six league games.
Although these were often as a substitute, he would gradually start to establish himself within the senior team
In the subsequent seasons, he continued to make substitute appearances and gradually established himself as a regular for the club Huang joined K-League club Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors on 10 February 2011 and made his debut on 6 March 2011 in a 1-0 loss against Chunnam Dragons.
On 7 July 2012, Huang transferred to Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande. While he did not take part any further in China"s remaining unsuccessful qualification games, he would return to the national team when he played in several friendlies and the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification under caretaker Yin Tiesheng.