1927

Joined the CPC

1929-1930

Officer of the underground CPC branch of Peking University

1938-1944

Secretary-director of the prefectural commissioner's office of the six counties in southern Hebei in the Liberated Areas; secretary general and director of civil affairs of the administrative office of Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Area, and commissioner to the No.17 and 18 sub-areas of Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Area

1947-1949

Director of the administrative office of West-Anhui Region

1949-1951

Head of Anhui Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau; Deputy Secretary General of Nanjing Municipal Government; member and Secretary General of Chongqing Municipal Military Control Commission; member of Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee; Vice Mayor of Chongqing

1951-1953

Member of the Political-Legal Committee of the Southwest; member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee

1954-1955

Deputy Party Secretary of Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee; member of Sichuan Provincial CPC Committee

1957

Transferred to MFA and appointed Ambassador to Albania

1964-1966

Member of the CPC Committee of MFA; Party Secretary of Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (later renamed as Beijing Foreign Studies University)

After 1978

Served as Vice President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Vice President of China-Africa Friendship Association

After 1993

Honorary President of Beijing Hakka Overseas Friendship Association