Following the onset of the May Thirtieth Movement in 1925, he actively engaged in organizing the Anshun High School Students' Salvation Federation, participating in street propaganda and delivering speeches.
In July 1933, he was apprehended by the Third Regiment of the Military Police due to an informant's betrayal and subsequently condemned to life imprisonment.
[3] In September 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was liberated from prison by the Nanjing Office of the Eighth Route Army and then traveled to Yan'an.
In February 1949, he led a delegation of cadres from Liaobei Province southward and subsequently became deputy secretary of the CCP Wuhan Municipal Committee.
[9] In January 1955, he additionally became deputy secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry, responsible for planning and finance.
Following his rehabilitation during the Cultural Revolution, he reinstated his party membership and professional duties, subsequently serving as an advisor to the Ministry of Education and as a member of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress after 1979.