In the summer of 1932, Mei went to Peiping alone, looking for revolutionary organizations and studying English by himself in the Beijing Library.
After Shanghai was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army, he served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Translation.
From 1945 to 1946, he served as Secretary of the Shanghai Cultural Committee of the CCP and spokesman of the delegation of the party in Nanjing in 1946.
From 1947 to 1949, he served as deputy editor-in-chief of Yan'an and Taihang Branch Office of the Xinhua News Agency.
[4] In 1966, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, he was brought to be persecuted and then was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works in Suiyang District of Shangqiu, Henan.