Vice-president and Professor of the School of Chinese Classics at Remin University of China, Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program, Senior Researcher of the Chi-nese Institute for Confucius Studies, Secretary-general of the In-stitute of Mencius Studies. Major research fields: Chinese ideo-logical studies, Confucianism, history of classics and thoughts, excavated bamboo and silk manuscripts; Selected publications: Extending the High and Brilliant. Pursing the Way of the Mean: On the Thoughts of the Four Books (2016, co-author)[Chinese], Confucian Orthodoxy Theories: From New Per-spectives (2013) [Chinese], The 22 Lectures on Chinese Ideo-logical History (2012) [Chinese], Commentary and Annotation of‘Qiushu’(2004) [Chinese], etc.