He once worked at the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Construction and the Zhejiang Academy of Building Research and other institutions; he has successively held part-time positions at Zhejiang University, Tongji University, Hohai University, Zhejiang University of Technology and other schools, and served as a senior visiting scholar, adjunct professor, research fellow, etc. at Kyoto University in Japan, the Building Research Establishment of the UK Department of the Environment, Kuwait University, Syracuse University in the United States and other institutions.

       He has published more than 30 authored, edited and translated works; his most recent new work, the "Pile Foundation Engineering Handbook," is a national key publication of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" and is about to be published.

       He has won three provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards; his research results on rock-socketed piles received the honor of a major academic achievement of the world's Chinese; and he holds three Chinese patents.

       He currently serves as director of the editorial board of the "Geotechnical Engineering Series"; president of the Underground Branch of the Zhejiang Provincial Construction Industry Association; consultant to the Department of Civil Engineering of Zhejiang University City College; adjunct professor at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, etc.

 

       He graduated from National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai in 1946-1950, having previously studied at St. John's University in Shanghai. He is a professor at the Zhejiang Academy of Building Research and the founding president of the Underground Engineering Branch of the Zhejiang Provincial Construction Association. He is chairman of the editorial and publication committee of China's "Geotechnical Engineering Series."

       He has successively held teaching posts, served as a senior visiting scholar, supervised graduate students, or served as consultant to relevant departments (divisions) or chief engineer of their design and research institutes at Zhejiang University, Tongji University, Hohai University, Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Kyoto University in Japan, Kuwait University and other schools, as well as at research institutions such as the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.

       He participated in and presided over the civil engineering construction of Kuwait's national key project, the Waterfront Project (22 kilometers long in total, with a total cost of US$400 million), including coastal widening and reinforcement, a number of tourism building facilities along the route, and the construction of a new artificial island.

       He has more than 10 monographs, edited works and translated works, and more than 10 co-authored publications. Among them, books such as "Special Technical Problems of Deep Foundation Engineering," the "Pile Foundation Engineering Handbook (Handbook of Piles and Pile Foundations)," and "Illustrated Foundation Engineering in English and Chinese" have been reprinted many times; "Foundation Engineering for Difficult-to-Treat Ground" and "Soft Clay Engineering" sold out quickly after publication.

       He has published numerous papers, reports, book reviews, reviews, translations, short articles and essays in domestic and foreign journals, academic journals and conference proceedings, and continues to do so to this day.

       He is a drafter, reviewer or special-topic researcher for several local standards and national standards. He has received one major academic honor of the world's Chinese, three provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards, and two national utility model patents.