Ye is from Wuxi, Jiangsu. Member of China Democratic League. 1933 graduated from the Agricultural College of Jinling University, and 1938 graduated from the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Graduate School of Cornell University. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at Southwest Agricultural University. He used to be a faculty member, professor and researcher at the Institute of Economics of Nankai University, an adjunct professor and master tutor at the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Agricultural College of Chongqing Central University, a professor at the Law School of Chongqing University, the head of the Department of Economics, and a visiting scholar at FAO.