During the seventies Cai Chongguo worked as a labourer in Wuhan. He then taught philosophy at the University of Wuhan until 1989 when he moved to France on the 14 July 1989. He is now the editor in chief of the Chinese edition of the China Labour Bulletin and a cultural mediator for Enfants du Monde – Droits de l’Homme (World Children Human Rights). He has written the book Chine: l’envers de la puissance published in Paris by Ed Mango.