[citation needed] In 1943 he was accepted to Zhejiang University, where he graduated in 1949.
[citation needed] After university, he was assigned to Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of Culture.
[1] In July 1953 he joined the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, becoming its deputy director in 1978.
[citation needed] In 1983 he was promoted to become deputy dean of Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
[citation needed] On January 7, 2020, he died at Huadong Hospital, in Shanghai.