One of China’s most-prolific playwright, national first-class playwright, Doctor of Arts, the Vice President of SMG Performing Arts Group (SMG Live), Artistic Director of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, the chief director of ACT Shanghai International Theatre Festival, the director of Shanghai International Comedy Festival, an ‘Outstanding Expert’ named by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Vice President of Shanghai Dramatists’ Association
Since 2000, he has created about 80 plays, musicals, operas, musicals, operas, xiqu (Chinese operas), dance theatre, and physical theatre produced in China and overseas. His writing has won him numerous national and international awards, including The Caoyu Script Award.
His works include Last Winter, WWW.COM, The Insane Asylum Next to Heaven, Behind the Lie, Perfume, Activated Carbon, Dust to Dust, Das Kapital, Jane Eyre, 1977, The Piano in a Factory, Blind Massage, Monte Cristo: Musical, Dream of the Red Chamber, The Captain, The Crowd, House Guests, The Age of Awakening, Heroic Sons and Daughters, Left Unsaid; musicals such as Street Angel, The Twilight of Springtime, Beauty in the Wind, Letters Home from the War, You Are My Loneliness, Chinese adaptation of I LOVE YOU; contemporary ballet Jane Eyre, Ripples Across Stagnant Water; operas The Wild Rhododendron, On the Hopeful Field, Sentinels under the Neon Light; contemporary acrobatic show The Butterfly Lovers, Tianshan Snow; xiqu (Chinese opera) Chuanju Play: Sighing, Huju Because of Love, etc. Over a dozen of his works have been featured in international theatre festivals. His works have been translated, published and staged in multiple languages, including Chinese, Japanese, English, Turkish, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, Korean, among others.