1930- 1934 studied in the department of geography, Central University, during which he co-edited Principles of Anthropology with Ren Meihua, which was published by Zhongshan Bookstore.
1934- 1939 worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Geography of Central University, and then studied in Britain with a Sino-British Geng grant. He graduated from the Department of Geography of Cambridge University with a master's degree in science.
1939- 194 1 year, returned to China through the United States, became a professor in the Department of Geography of Chongqing Shapingba Central University, and began to serve as the director-general and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geography.
1942 ——1947, concurrently the head of the geography department of Central University. 1946— 1947, and served as a visiting professor in MarylandUnivercity, USA.
1948 to 1950, who succeeded as the head of the Department of Geography of Central University after the Anti-Japanese War.
1950 ——1956, member of the Preparatory Committee of Geography Specialty of China Academy of Sciences; Soviet geographical translation; Editor-in-Chief of Geographical Knowledge,1August, 952, Head of the Department of Geography, Nanjing Normal University.
From 1957 to 1979, he was wrongly classified as a rightist, and he also wrote with a strong will. 1963 wrote "Application and Evaluation of Fractional Numbering Method, Taking Suzhou dongshan town as an Example" and published it in Journal of Jiangsu Geographical Society. 1964, translated by Wagner, Origin of Land and Sea, Commercial Press; Author of Several Problems in Modern Geography and Geographical Knowledge, 1979, issue 3. It was not until 1979 that the rightist misjudged case was corrected.
1June, 979—June, 65438+July, 0985, was elected as the vice chairman of Jiangsu Geographical Society; Executive director of China Geographical Society. During this period, he wrote a lot, actively calling for "the revival of human geography", "vigorously carrying out the research on the relationship between man and land and human geography" and "the rebirth of human geography" Many media have interviewed and reported this and made outstanding contributions to the revival of human geography.