He was a member of the 15th and 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 1959, he entered Anhui Agricultural University, majoring in the Department of Forestry.
[citation needed] After graduating in 1963, he was assigned as an official to Bajiazi Forestry Bureau in northeast China's Jilin province, and worked there for ten years totally.
In October 1973, he was dispatched to Jilin Provincial Forestry Department, where he eventually became its deputy head in April 1983.
[2][3] He was chosen as deputy head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group in April 2003, and served until July 2007.