He used to be deputy director and director of the Department of Chemistry of China Academy of Sciences, member of the Presidium of China Academy of Sciences, international editorial board of Chemical Physics Newsletter (Amsterdam), international editorial board of Faraday Society of British Chemical Society, member of the Executive Committee of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, editorial board of Journal of Spectral Chemistry (new york-Oxford), adjunct professor of Peking University, honorary professor of Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, Zhejiang University, and honorary doctor of science of Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Academy of Sciences.

He is currently a member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, honorary director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, vice-chairman of China Association for Science and Technology, member of the Presidium of China Academy of Sciences, member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, deputy head of the national key basic research and development planning expert advisory group, member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Spectrochemistry (new york-Oxford), and adjunct professor of Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nanjing University and Fudan University.

He was elected as the representative of the 13th and 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a member of the presidium of the 14th National Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th and 9th CPPCC and a representative of the 3rd National People's Congress.

1980, 1 1, was elected as a member of the Faculty of Chinese Academy of Sciences (academician) in June, and was hired as a member of the Disciplinary Evaluation Group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee in the same year. 1984 was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Department of Chemistry of China Academy of Sciences, and concurrently served as an adjunct professor at Nanjing University and Fudan University. 190 199 1 year/0/0 served as the director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and served as the vice chairman of China Association for Science and Technology at the end of April of the same year. He also served as the 22nd and 23rd chinese chemical society. Member of the Committee of Molecular Structure and Spectra of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, deputy editor-in-chief of Science, Chemical Physics and Chinese Laser, and editor-in-chief of Journal of Spectrochemistry and Faraday II.