He is the chief scientist of many Chinese national nuclear research and development programs.
He also holds the professorship and the dean position of the College of Science, Zhejiang University.
He is a member of the Expert Committee of Nonlinear Science, Major State Basic Research.
[3] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (M.P.C.
[4] In July 2019, he was awarded the Edward Teller Medal of the American Nuclear Society "for his outstanding leadership in the development of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) study and his significant contribution to target physics and high energy density physics".