In July 2020, he was appointed vice governor of southeast China's Fujian province and was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, the province's top authority.
In January 2021, he took office as party secretary of Xiamen, replacing Hu Changsheng, who was promoted to governor of Heilongjiang.[2]
On 22 October, he rose to become the acting governor of Fujian, becoming the youngest head of provincial administrative region government in China.[3] On 25 January 2022, he was elected as the governor of Fujian.[4]