Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Center for Studies of Marxist Social theory, Dean of the Research Institute of Marxism, executive member of the Marx and Engels Research Association of China, the Society of Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism, the Chinese Society of the History of Marxist Philosophy, Chair of Jiangsu Society of Philosophy, Jiangsu Association of Marxist Studies.

Research interests: history of Marxist philosophy, textual studies of Marx and Lenin, contemporary Marxist theory, Marxist ontology and humanistic approach, historic construction.