1976 enlisted as a communications officer and instructor in the naval destroyer force and submarine force.
After the great disarmament in the mid-1990s, he returned to Beijing and worked as an editor in Ship Knowledge. Since 1997, he has been the editor-in-chief of the online edition of Ship Knowledge and the moderator of the website forum, so he is called "webmaster B" by readers of Ship Knowledge. .
He is now a special military commentator for CCTV and Phoenix Satellite TV.