Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
He joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1930, the Communist Youth League of China in 1931, and the Communist Party of China in 1933. During the Chinese Civil War, he took part in the Long March. He served as a student in Flight Training Class of Xinjiang Air Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He served as the team leader of Eight Route Army General Headquarters Air Force, section chief of Flight Training Department, and political commissar of the Fighter Air Group in the Chinese Communist Revolution. He shot down or damaged 88 American planes with his army in the Korean War.