In October 1945, he was commissioned as political commissar of the Second Field Army.[1] He was secretary of the CCP Western Anhui District Committee in November 1947, in addition to serving as political commissar of the Western Anhui Military District.[1] In April 1949, he was appointed as director of the Office of the Nanjing Military Control Commission.
After the founding of the Communist State, in November 1949, he was appointed second secretary of the CCP Southern Sichuan District Committee, concurrently serving as political commissar of the Southern Sichuan Military District.[1] He was made second secretary of the CCP Chongqing Municipal Committee.[1]
He was transferred to Beijing in November 1954 and appointed deputy director of the National Planning Commission (now National Development and Reform Commission).[1] In May 1956, he was promoted to minister of the newly founded Ministry of Chemical Industry.[1][2] He concurrently served as deputy director of the National Planning Commission and director of its the Comprehensive Utilization Bureau (Resource Utilization Bureau).[1] In May 1958, he was elected an alternate member of the 8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]
On 14 November 1961, he died of lung cancer in Beijing, at the age of 48.[1]
