Born in Kunming in 1931, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1950 and was sent to university by the army in 1952. He graduated from the Metallurgical Department of Kunming Institute of Technology in 1956 and was assigned to the Beijing Nonferrous Metals Research Institute in the same year. , has been engaged in rare earth research. Member of the Communist Party of China, senior engineer (professor-level treatment), young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, enjoying state subsidies, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the second China Nonferrous Metals Society, and executive director of the China Rare Earth Society.
In 1963, he was responsible for researching the method of successfully producing high-purity europium oxide (above 99.99) with the cooperation of Comrades Wang Naibin and Lang Daifan. Today, this method has been adopted by many rare earth factories across the country, providing fluorescent-grade europium oxide for the red phosphor of color TVs in my country. This project won the National Science Conference Award in 1978.
In 1979, he was responsible for the invention of a new process for smelting Baotou rare earth concentrates to produce rare earth chloride through sulfuric acid-enhanced roasting in a rotary kiln with the cooperation of Luo Yong, Ou Haifeng and other comrades. Responsible for designing a rare earth chloride production line with an annual output of 6,000 tons for Gansu Rare Earth Company, which was put into operation in 1982. In 1986, the project won the third prize of the National Invention Award.
In 1983, he was in charge. With the cooperation of Huang Xiaowei, Gu Baojiang and other comrades, he studied the extraction and separation of rare earth elements from rare earth sulfate solution using P〖HT6〗204〖HT5〗 to prepare cheap samarium, europium and gadolinium. Concentrates, neodymium oxide and rare earth chloride and other products. It passed industrial testing in 1986 and was immediately promoted and used in four rare earth factories in the north, thus updating the smelting method of rare earth concentrate in Baotou, China. In 1990, it won the third prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. Won the National Excellent Patent Award in 1991. In 1988, he was awarded the title of "Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions" by the Ministry of Personnel. In 1991, he was rated as a special model worker in the national non-ferrous metal industry system and enjoyed special government subsidies in the same year. He is the director of the second council of the China Nonferrous Metals Society, the fourth executive director and the director of the third council of the China Rare Earth Society. Due to his outstanding achievements in the establishment and development of China's rare earth industry over more than 40 years, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995 and received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award in 1997.