1952 graduated from the Department of Geography of Nanjing University and was assigned to work in the Institute of Geography of China Academy of Sciences.
1September 1952 to1March 1966, researcher at the Institute of Geography, China Academy of Sciences, served as deputy director of the Desert Room. Among them,1September 1956 to1September 1958,165438+1October went to the Institute of Geography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences to study physical geography.
1March, 1966 to1May, 1978, served as the director of the desert room of the Institute of Glaciology and Permafrost, China Academy of Sciences.
1May 1978 ——1March 1992 served as the director and researcher of Lanzhou Desert Research Institute of China Academy of Sciences, and concurrently served as the chairman of China Geographical Desert Branch.
1March 1992-1August 1999, researcher, Lanzhou Institute of Desert and Geography, China Academy of Sciences.
1From August 1999 to February 20001,he was a researcher at the Institute of Environment and Engineering in Cold and Arid Regions, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the vice chairman of China Desertification Control Industry Society, and a GEF expert of the United Nations Environment Programme. Senior expert consultant of the Executive Committee of China Convention to Combat Desertification and Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science of the State Environmental Protection Administration.
1985, elected as an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and served as a desertification consultant hired by the United Nations Environment Programme and ESCAP; Director of desertification research in the world laboratory and many other positions.
He used to be the director of Lanzhou Desert Research Institute of China Academy of Sciences (1978- 1992), the chairman of the Desert Branch of China Geographical Society, the senior adviser of desertification science of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the director of the Ecological Society of the World Conservation Union, the member of the International Desert Development Committee (IDDC) and the chairman of the 3rd International Conference on Desert Development (TIDC). Member of the judging panel of academic degree evaluation committee, the State Council, executive director of China Ecological Society, executive director of China Environment Society, director of China Geographical Society, director of China Ecological Economics Society, honorary chairman of China Desert Society, vice chairman of China Desert Control and Sand Industry Society, senior expert consultant of China Executive Committee of International Convention to Combat Desertification, expert of Global Environment Facility (GEF) evaluation team of United Nations Environment Programme, editor-in-chief of China Desert, etc.