[3] During the late Cultural Revolution in December 1973, he worked as a sent-down youth in Donggou Township of Guide County in northwest China's Qinghai province.
After working at Qinghai Native Products Company as league secretary for three years, he was admitted to Shaanxi Normal University, where he majored in history.
In April 1984, he was transferred to the Lecturer Group of Theoretical Education for Cadres of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the CCP, where he successively served as lecturer, deputy head, and head.
In October 1997, he became vice president of Qinghai Academy of Social Sciences, but having held the position for only two years.
[3] In March 2018, the Party History Research Center of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was revoked and its function was merged into the newly founded Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Partym, he was appointed executive vice president, one year later, he rose to become president, a position at ministerial level.