He was a professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine and elected an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994.
He graduated from Medical school of Saint John's University, Shanghai and received M.D.
He manifested that dwarfism caused by schistosomiasis could come back to growing state after treatment.
In China, he was the first to use colonoscopy observing pathological change in the colon of those suffered from schistosomiasis.
They applied folic acid, selenium, and tretinoin to induce differentiation of gastric precancerous lesions.