Graduated from Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1985, and was admitted to Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine to study febrile diseases in the same year. From 1987 to 1993, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College. In 1993, he was awarded the Sasakawa Medical Scholarship and was sent by the Ministry of Health to the First Department of Internal Medicine of Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University in Japan to conduct diabetes research. Two years later, he transferred to the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Kanazawa Medical University Graduate School and obtained a doctorate in medicine.

In 1999, he came to the United States to conduct postdoctoral research in respiratory physiology at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center. From 2005 to 2009, he served as the principal of SHI Acupuncture School in Ohio. He is currently a first-level professor at the Swiss University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a clinical professor at Ohio University College of Medicine, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Macau University of Science and Technology, a professor at the Alberta College of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in Canada, a visiting professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University and Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, the foreign director of the International Acupuncture and Rehabilitation Institute of Wenzhou Medical University, a doctoral supervisor at the Five Departments University of Chinese Medicine in California, the Texas Huamei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Atlantic College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Florida, the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Minnesota and the Nanjing/British Shulan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the UK, the president of the American Association of Neural Diseases, the vice president of the American Society of Chinese Medicine, the executive director of the American Chinese Medicine Association, the consultant of the New York Licensed Acupuncturists Association, and the acupuncture consultant of the Ohio Medical Association. He also serves as an executive member of the Supervisory Board of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine (WFCM), a member of the WFCM Diabetes Diagnosis and Treatment Standards Development Group, and the executive director of the WFCM Internal Medicine Committee; vice president of the WFCM Digestive Committee, vice president of the WFCM Endocrine Committee, vice president of the WFCM Prescription and Drug Dose-Effect Research Association, and vice president of the WFCM State Target Diagnosis and Treatment Committee.

He has TCM acupuncture licenses in Ohio, New York, Maryland, and Virginia in the United States, owns two TCM clinics, serves as a special reviewer for many SCI journals such as eBiomedicine, is an editorial board member of Chinese Acupuncture, an editorial board member of World Acupuncture Journal, deputy editor-in-chief of International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture, deputy editor-in-chief of New England Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and guest editor of 14 special journals such as Frontiers of Immunology. He has been invited to give lectures at Harvard TCM Forum and other famous universities and societies many times, participated in the editing and compilation of 15 books on TCM and modern medicine, and published more than 160 papers, mainly SCI papers.