[1] He is a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 1974, and entered the Statistics Bureau of Shanghai Municipal Planning Commission and Shanghai Municipal Price Bureau in July 1978.
After university in 1983, he was assigned to the Theoretical Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
He worked in the Information Office of the State Council between December 1991 and April 2013, what he was promoted to its deputy director in February 2004.
[2] [3] He concurrently served as vice chairman of China Writers Association from December 2016 to September 2021.