He has successively served as an assistant engineer, project manager, assistant general manager, futures broker, senior reporter, program host, special commentator, chief planner, director, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of news center in military factory, State Science and Technology Commission, China Economic Development Futures, china securities journal, Xinhua News Agency Audio-visual Center, Economic Observer and International Finance News. In early 2004, Hou Ning Financial Media Studio was established. The studio consists of senior journalists, financial experts, critics, psychologists, sociologists and planners, with Hou Ning as the chief writer and chief planner. The studio will aim at boosting the benign operation and coordinated development of China's financial and capital markets, take the service of financial institutions and wealth groups as its own responsibility, and take the principle of "three publics" as the criterion to reveal the true meaning of wealth, comment on the right and wrong of finance and economics, report important news of wealth, plan financial strategies, and build a spiritual platform for the world's wealth groups to rest and recharge.
He has worked in the State Science and Technology Commission, futures companies, foreign companies, china securities journal, the audio-visual department of Xinhua News Agency, Economic Observer and other units. He first predicted the coming of bull market in 2000 and bear market in June, 200012000, and reported the skyrocketing natural rubber futures, the comeback of Gao Xiqing, and the emergence of dual-board Minsheng Securities.