Member of the Communist Party of China. In 1981, he graduated from China University of Science and Technology with a Master’s degree in geography. In 1991, he received a Doctor’s degree in geography in the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served successively as Assistant Researcher, Associate Researcher and Researcher of the Institute of Geography; Doctorate Adviser, laboratory director and Director of the Institute of Geography; Deputy Director-General of the Department of Social Development (as a Director-General ranking official), the State Science and Technology Commission; Director-General of the Department of Rural and Social Development, Ministry of Science and Technology. Since November 2001, he has been serving as Vice Minister and Member of the Leading Party Group of the Ministry of Science and Technology.