He is an academician of CAE, and currently is the director of the Key Laboratory of Smart Grid of the Ministry of Education , and the director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Microgrids and Intelligent Power Distribution Systems. He is the member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education, executive director of China Energy Research Association, and editor-in-chief of “IET Energy Systems Integration”.

He has been long engaged in the research on smart distribution network and microgrids, and has published 6 Chinese/English books and more than 200 papers, which were cited by others for more than 30,000 times. He has been selected as Highly Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier for 7 consecutive years. he has won the second prize of the National Award for Technical Invention (ranked 1), 3 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2 items ranked 1 and 1 item ranked 2), the Science and Technology Progress Award of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, the National Award for Innovation Pioneering and the National Labor Medal. His team was selected as the innovation team of both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology in key fields.