Previously he served as chairman of the Huaihua Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
[1] He was appointed party secretary of Tongdao Dong Autonomous County in August 2013 and three years later was admitted as a member of the CCP Huaihua Municipal Committee, the prefecture-level city's top authority.
[2] In April 2021, he became secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CCP Huaihua Municipal Committee, a position he held until January 2022, when he was chosen as chairman of the Huaihua Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
[3] His deputy Xie Shangcheng (谢商成) was disgraced by China's top anticorruption watchdog on the same day.
[3] His colleague Lei Shaoye, party secretary of Huaihua, was sacked for graft on the previous day.