Her best of the 2011 season came indoors on the national circuit, with a mark of in Nanjing. She failed to better that outdoors, placing eleventh at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships, but continued with strong indoor performances the following year by taking her first senior medal – a bronze – at the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships on home soil in Hangzhou. She was beaten by her younger national rival, Lu Minjia. Her next major outing was the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships, where she was her country's only representative in the women's long jump, and she finished down in eighth at the competition. She did not jump much beyond six metres that year. Her best of the season was at the 12th Chinese National Games, where she jumped for third while representing her native Fujian. She returned to the site of her first medal at the 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, but finished in sixth while her countrywoman Jiang Yanfei took bronze.