After participating in the revolution, he engaged in the Shanghai student movement and the secret work of the party. He used to be a member of the CPC Hu Xin Middle School Branch, a member of the CPC General Branch of Daxia University, and a traffic policeman of the Shanghai Underground Party.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he was a member and acting secretary of the Academic Committee of Shanghai Songlu District, and the organizer and secretary of the CPC Songlu District Committee.
1952 to 1958 served as deputy director of the organization department of Songshan District Committee of the Communist Party of China, minister of industry, and minister of industry of Miao Yi District Committee.
1958 was wrongly identified as a rightist (1979 65438+ 10).
From 1958 to 1978, he successively delegated labor, and successively served as deputy section chief, laboratory director and engineer of the technical department of Shanghai ballpoint pen factory.
1979 ~ 1980, once worked as an engineer, director and member of the Party Committee of Shanghai Film Photography Industry Company.
1980 ~ 1983, deputy director of Shanghai light industry bureau.
1983 to 1988, member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and vice mayor of Shanghai.
1April 1988 to1February 1998, served as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Standing Committee of the Ninth and Tenth Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, and secretary of the party group.
He is a representative of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 7th and 8th NPC, the 1st, 5th and 6th Shanghai Municipal Committee, the 4th, 5th and 6th Shanghai Municipal Committee and the 8th, 9th and 10th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress.