1985- 1988 Master of Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Guangxi Agricultural College
1985- 1986 master of biology, east China normal university (co-culture)
1989- 1992 British Dr. John innis center
1992- 1998 postdoctoral fellow, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge, UK.
1998—— Director of the National Gene Research Center of China Academy of Sciences and head of the expert group on rice genome sequencing.
2002-present Deputy Director, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, China Academy of Sciences.
2008-20 1 1 Deputy Director, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
20 1 1- Up to now, vice president of Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.