He also finished in the top two at the 2010 Youth Olympics and the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships.

He cleared sixteen metres in the triple jump for the first time in 2009, en route to winning the Chinese High School Games title.

[2] In his first international competition, he cleared a personal best of 16.14 m (52 ft 11+1⁄4 in) to take second place at the 2010 Youth Olympics, finishing behind Cuban Radame Fabar.

His best performances came at the Chinese City Games, where he cleared 7.89 m (25 ft 10+1⁄2 in) to take bronze in the long jump and leaped 16.56 m (54 ft 3+3⁄4 in) to win the triple jump title – the latter mark ranked him third in the world that year among junior athletes.

[7][8] He was among the top qualifiers at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but managed only seventh place in the final.