In his first start of the PGA TOUR China season, made the most of his opportunity, opening and closing with 69s at the Sunning Estate Nanjing Zhongshan Open to T6 with Huilin Zhang, Christopher Brown, Rohan Blizard, Yanwei Liu and Daniel Nisbet. The T6 represented his first top-10 in what was his fourth start. Previous-best finish was a T47 at the Nine Dragons Open.