He's a four-time Chinese Science Fiction Galaxy Award winner. His principal works include the novels Adventure in Soul (1994) and In the Sixth Day: Life or Death (1996), the anthologies Green-times in a Drawer (1999) and Exodus (2003), and the textbooks Psychology of Leadership (1996) and Foundation of Educational Management (2003). His science-fiction criticism includes Jia Baoyu on Submarine: Studies of Chinese Early Science Fiction (2006) and Theories and Frameworks of Science Fiction Studies (2008). In 1991 he created the first undergraduate course in science fiction in China and a master's program in 2003.