 He was admitted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1945, and transferred to Tsinghua University and graduated in 1951.After graduation, he started working at Propaganda Department of the Party.On May 21, 1952, He published an article titled "Soviet Scientists Criticize Idealism of Quantum Mechanics" on "People's Daily", arguing that Mao's political criticism against Bourgeois idealism should be applied to the natural sciences as well.