From January 1981 to April 1983, he worked at the Agricultural Bank of Jinta County;

From May 1983 to September 1988, he served as a secretary of the Jiuquan Municipal Government Office (during which time he studied at the college class of the Party and Government Cadre Basic Specialization Section of the Gansu Radio and Television University from September 1984 to July 1986);

From October 1988 to February 1989, deputy director of the Jiuquan Municipal Government Research Office;

March 1989 to June 1993, deputy director of the Jiuquan Municipal Government Office;

July 1993 to April 1995, Jiuquan Municipal Party Committee Deputy Director of the Office of the Director of the Office of the Machine Room;

May 1995 to December 1996, Jiuquan Prefectural Party Committee Organization Department

From January 1997 to June 1997, he was the head of the Party and Government Cadre Section of the Organization Department of Jiuquan Prefecture Committee;

From July 1997 to October 1999, he was the deputy county-level organizer of the Organization Department of Jiuquan Prefecture Committee and the head of the Party and Government Cadre Section (during which time he studied in the undergraduate course of economic management at the Correspondence School of the Central Party School from August 1998 to December 2000); from March 1999 to October 1999, he studied in the undergraduate course of economic management at the Correspondence School of the Central Party School. From March 1999 to July 1999, he studied at the seventeenth training course for young and middle-aged cadres at the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee;

From November 1999 to March 2005, he served as Deputy Secretary of the Jinta County Committee of the People's Republic of China (during which time he studied at the postgraduate course on regional economics at Northwestern Teachers' University from September 2000 to June 2003);