He was an alternate member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

In April 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, he was forced to work in the fields but soon reinstated in September 1969.

[2] In January 1974, he was promoted to become party secretary of Yantai, a position he held until September 1976, when he was appointed director of the Shandong Metallurgical Bureau.

[3] He was manager and party branch secretary of Shandong Metallurgical Industry Corporation in October 1983, and held that office until February 1988.

In December 2001, he took office as vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, a post he kept until March 2008.