After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as deputy brigade commander and political commissar of the 358th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army120th Division, and led his troops to carry out anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in Kelan and Wuzhai in northwest Shanxi, and participated in the establishment of anti-Japanese base areas in northwest Shanxi.
1June 1938 served as commander and political commissar of Qingshan cavalry detachment of Eighth Route Army 120 Normal University. He led his troops from Wuzhai to Yanbei and then to Suiyuan, opened up the anti-Japanese guerrilla base in Daqingshan, including Suinan, Suizhong and Suixi, and smashed the siege of the Japanese puppet troops again and again.
1940 1 1 The Northwest Shanxi Military Region was established in1October. He has served as the political commissar of the 358th Brigade and the 3rd Army Division, and the political commissar of the Daqingshan detachment. He stubbornly resisted "mopping-up", encroachment and blockade, persisted in carrying out anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in Suixi and Suinan, and defended the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region. 1942 September, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China jinsui branch was established as the organization minister. In the winter of the same year, he served as a political commissar of the General School of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and served as a large number of military and political cadres. From June, 65438 to July, 0945, he served as political commissar of the Jinsui Field Army, assisted He Long to lead the Jinsui military and civilians to launch offensive operations against the Japanese puppet troops, conquered and squeezed out the Japanese puppet troops' strongholds, and liberated a large area of land.
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, he served as secretary of the Jinsui Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and political commissar of the Jinsui Military Region, leading the land reform movement in the Jinsui Liberated Area and supporting the Northwest People's Liberation War.
1949 went to Sichuan to be responsible for the work of the Sichuan Working Committee of the Communist Party of China and cooperate with the China People's Liberation Army to March to the southwest.
After the founding of New China, he successively served as the first secretary of CPC Western Sichuan District Committee, director of Western Sichuan Administrative Office and political commissar of military region, chairman of Sichuan Provincial People's Government, chairman of Southwest Cooperation Committee, director of Southwest Third Line Construction Committee, first secretary of CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and first political commissar of provincial military region, secretary and first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Southwest Bureau and first political commissar of Chengdu Military Region.
Elected as member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, member of the Tenth and Eleventh Central Committees of the Communist Party of China, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Advisory Committee, and vice chairman of the Third, Fourth and Fifth the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC); 1989 died in Beijing in April.