1992.9 –1996.6: Bachelor Student, Department of Biology, East China Normal University, got the Bachelor Degree in Jun. 1996.
2001.9 – 2004.6: Part-time Master Student, the College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, got the Master Degree in Jun. 2004.
2005.3 – 2008.1: Ph.D. Student, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, got the Philosophic Doctor Degree in Jul. 2008.
1996.7 – 2001.8: Assistant Experimentalist, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
2001.9 – 2005.3: Experimentalist (equal Lecturer), College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
2008.1 – 2013.5: Assistant Professor, Research Group for Biodiversity and Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
2009.9 – 2010.1: Visiting research fellow, Laboratory of Cytogenetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan. To study the genes relative with sex expression in melon.
2012.3 – 2013.3: Visiting Scholar in Dr. Timothy J. Motley’s Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA.
2013.6 – 2018.3: Professor and Director of the Research Center on African Biodiversity, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
2015.4 – Date: Director of the Herbarium, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.