[1] He completed his undergraduate study in Wuhan College of Building Materials Industry in 1982, and received his master of industrial management engineering from Wuhan Polytechnic University in 1987.
[2] He served as the vice-president of Wuhan Institute of Urban Construction from 1994 to 1999, and the president from 1999 to 2000.
[3] Ding led the design of digital management systems of urban rail transit construction project in China.
He proposed 3 kinds of system architecture based on Computer Integrated Construction.
[4] Ding and his colleagues also developed a computer system to automatically identificate and pre-warn the security risks in rail transit construction.