Previously he served as the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Suzhou, the largest city in Jiangsu.

In 1980, he enrolled in Hangzhou Institute of Commerce (now Zhejiang Gongshang University), majoring in planning statistics, where he graduated in 1984.

[citation needed] After university, in August 1984, he was dispatched to State Administration of commodity Prices (now National Development and Reform Commission), where he worked successively as director of the Department of Price Supervision, director of the Department of Fixed Assets Investment, and deputy secretary-general.

[1] In September 2020, he was transferred to the neighboring Jiangsu province and appointed party secretary of Suzhou, the top political position in the city.

On 19 October 2021, he was promoted to acting governor of Jiangsu, replacing Wu Zhenglong.