Former Deputy Secretary-General and Office Director of the Central Financial and Economic Work Leadership Group.

In 1956, he studied in Agricultural Economy Department, Renmin University ofChina. In 1963, he graduated from Agricultural Economy Department,Renmin University of China awarded a Master’s Degree.

In 1963: Member of the General Affairs Department, the State Planning Commission; Since 1973: Member of the General Affairs Team, Planning Department, the State Planning Commission; Deputy Division Chief, Division Chief and Deputy Director- General- Level Leader, the National Income Division. In April, 1983: Deputy Bureau Chief, General Affairs Bureau, in the State Planning Commission. In 1985: Member and Bureau Chief, General Affairs Bureau, the State Planning Commission. In June 1988: Deputy Secretary-General, the State Planning Commission. In October, 1990: Deputy Director; the State Planning Commission. In June 1997: Deputy Director; and Deputy Secretary, Party Leadership Group, the State Planning Commission. In March, 1998, Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary, Party Leadership Group, the State Development Planning Commission. In March 2003：Deputy Secretary-General and Office Director , the Central Financial and Economic Work Leading Group; Deputy Director and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, the National Development and Reform Commission; and Deputy Director, the Leadership Group Office for the Development of Central and Western Regions, the State Council. In August, 2005: Deputy Secretary- General and Office Director, the Central  Financial and Economic Work Leadership Group; Deputy Director in charge of social development work and the Social Development Department, the National Development and Reform Commission. He has resigned since July, 2007 and worked as a candidate member of the 15th CPC Central Committee.

Since April, 2009, he has assumed Executive Vice Chairman, China Center for International Economic Exchanges.