His first cartoon was Fu Gui, which was created in 19491October. The Battle on the Train was published in 1952 and won the first prize of the National Youth Art Exhibition in 1957. The work "Great Changes in the Countryside" is regarded as a landmark masterpiece in the history of chinese comic, and won the first prize in the first National Comic Award 1963 organized by the Ministry of Culture and China Artists Association.
Other masterpieces include White Light, Great Changes in the Countryside, Chaoyanggou, Ascending to the Third Class, Fifteen Passes, Marriage of Little Erhei, and Jiang Shen Customs. "White Light" won the first prize of painting in the Second National Comic Award; Fifteen passes, Chaoyanggou and Pijiu peppers all won national prizes. He has published He Youzhi's Talk on Cartoon Creation and Li Shuangshuang.