[2] Previously, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister from 2009 to 2014, and was appointed Chinese ambassador to France in January 2014, replacing Kong Quan.

[4][5] Upon his graduation, he returned to China and worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he worked in the translation office, the Department of West Asia and North Africa, and at Chinese embassies in South Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

[6] In 1996, he served as counselor of the West Asia and North Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After his return to China in 2000, he served as Deputy Director-General of the Department of West Asia and North Africa and on the same year, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhenjiang Municipal Committee in Jiangsu Province.

[6][7] On September 2, 2019, he was appointed as the Chinese Special Envoy to the Middle East, succeeding Gong Xiaosheng.