He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
[1] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in August of the same year.
[1] In the winter of 1973, he waslabeled as "a representative figure of the bourgeois restoration forces" (资产阶级复辟势力代表人物) by Chi Qun, and later reinstated in 1977.
[1][2] After the Cultural Revolution, he continued to work at Tsinghua University, where he was promoted to deputy party secretary in May 1977 and to vice president in 1978.
[1] In April 1982, he was appointed minister of education, in addition to serving as president of the Open University Of China since September 1984.