In 1947, he studied at Fu Jen Catholic University in Beijing and then taught at a teacher's college for two years.
During the Cultural Revolution, he forced to work in the fields instead of preaching Catholicism.
He was elected administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunde in 1987, and nominated as bishop there in the following year.
On October 28, 1989, he was ordained Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shunde without a papal mandate, Bishop Peter Chen Bolu was chief secretary.
It was the first bishop in the "open church" conducted in Chinese, previously it was always in Latin.