[1] In March 1998, he was transferred to his home-county Shilin Yi Autonomous County and appointed deputy party secretary.
[1] He was appointed assistant mayor of Kunming in July 2004, concurrently serving as party secretary of Chenggong County.
[1] He became mayor in December 2015, and then party secretary, the top political position in the city, beginning in February 2016.
[1][2][3] In April 2021, he was chosen as a counsellor of Yunnan Provincial People's Government, a post he kept until September 2022.
On 9 September 2022, he was removed from public office and was placed on probation within the CCP for two years due to the pollution of East River in Baoshan.