In 2006, he became the Deputy Secretary-general of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong until 2015 when he became Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office.

In 2017, he replaced Zhang Xiaoming to become the Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong.

[1] In January 2020 he was dismissed and replaced by Luo Huining,[2] reportedly for misleading the leadership in Beijing about the extent of support for the ongoing protests in Hong Kong and for thus failing to foresee the opposition win by the Pro-democracy camp and localist camp in the 2019 local elections.

[3][4] After he dismissed, he was appointed as the vice President of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee in ministerial level.

Targeting the pro-democrats' slogan of calling for the end of "one party dictatorship" since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.