Graduated from Nankai University in 2006 with a doctor's degree in law (government economics).

From 2008 to 2009, visiting scholar in Seoul University, South Korea.

In October 2012, visiting scholar at Turku University in Finland.

From 2016 to 2017, visiting scholar at the University of Glasgow in the UK.

Regional development and governance; Development politics; Government Economics

Development Politics, Political Geography, History of Western Political Thought, Regional Politics, Urban Politics, etc. (undergraduate);

Urban Politics Research (Master);

Research on Frontier Problems of Political Science (Ph. D.)

 Published more than 60 papers in important journals at home and abroad; Published more than 10 personal monographs and coauthors.

Completed many projects of the National Social Sciences and Ministry of Social Science and Education.