Career
Political commissar, 94th division, 32d Army, 3d Field Army, 1949; deputy commander, Hangzhou Air Defense Command, 1950; deputy director Public Security Department, People's Government Zhejiang Province, 1951; political commissar Public Security Forces, Zhejiang Province, 1954; member, People's Government Zhejiang Province, 1955; director Public Security Department, People's Government Zhejiang Province, 1955; vice-governor, Zhejiang Province, 1964; branded counterrevolutionary revisionist and purged, 1967; vice-chairman, Revolutionary Committee Zhejiang, 1977-1979; member Standing Committee, Zhejiang Province Communist Party, 1978; deputy secretary, Zhejiang Province Communist Party, 1978-1982; vice chairman, People's Congress Zhejiang Province, 1979-1983; secretary, Zhejiang Province Communist Party, 1982-1983; member, Chinese Communist Party Center Committee, 1982; leading secretary, Zhejiang Province Communist Party, 1983; state councilor, State Council, since 1988; also minister public secretary, since 1987.