[1] His ancestral hometown was Kanshan Town, Xiaoshan, Zhejiang, and he was born in Guizhou Province.
During that time, Shi actively supported Xinhai Revolution, and devoted to social welfare.
In 1912, as a delegate from Shanxi, Shi attended the inauguration ceremony of the Temporary President of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen. Later, he assisted Huang Xing to draft the army's military law.
[citation needed] In 1930, he co-founded Beiping National Medical College along with Xiao Longwen and Kong Bohua; that school closed in 1944.
Shi financed his niece Lu Shijia's studies at the University of Göttingen in Germany under Ludwig Prandtl.