He has served as the Dean of the school of pharmacy, Nankai University and has founded the national sugar Engineering Technology Research Center, and served as the director of the sugar research center. He has won a number of domestic and international awards, undertaken a number of scientific research projects in China and the United States, hold 8 invention patents, and published 6 academic monographs and more than 430 papers in international academic journals, with the h-index values of 57 (Google Scholar) and 47 (web of Science) respectively. Besides, he is the deputy editor or editorial board member of many international academic journals. As an expert in the field of sugar chemistry, his research interests include pharmaceutical chemistry, sugar biology, chemical biology, glycoproteomics, etc.; as well as biological engineering of natural products, enzyme catalytic reaction, green chemistry, chemical biology of active nitrogen and oxygen in life.

Research
Glycoscience on glycobiolgy, glycochemistry, glycoanalysis, glycomics, Carbohydrate chemistry, carbohydrate biology and Glycomics
Pharmaceutical chemistry, green chemistry, and medicinal chemistry of natural products
Chemical biology of active nitrogen and oxygen in life