[1] He was a member of the 3rd and 4th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Pi was born Pi Jinxu (Chinese: 皮金旭) in Shaling Village of Liaoyang County, Fengtian Province, on February 1, 1897, to a Catholic family.
On July 26, 1949 he was appointed archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shenyang by Pope Pius XII, becoming the fourth Chinese archbishop from China, after Thomas Tien Ken-sin, Paul Yü Pin, and Joseph Zhou Jishi.
After the establishment of the Communist State in October 1951, he was put in prison was released in 1955.
In July 1957 he was elected president of the newly founded Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.