PhD from Fudan University. He has visited Europe, America, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan for academic exchanges. He concurrently serves as Vice Chairman of Shanghai Convention & Event Industry Association(SCEIA), Deputy Director of the Expert Committee of Yangtze River Delta Exhibition City Alliance, and a member of the Academic Committee of China Convention Exhibition Event Society. He has served as a consulting expert for Shanghai World Expo, undertaken research projects including Feasibility Study and 13th Five-Year Plan of National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC) Shanghai, series evaluation of Shanghai International Arts Festival in three consecutive years, "Globalization and International Event Industry Development: A Comparative Study" funded by National Social Science Foundation of China, "Research on Spillover Effects of China International Import Expo" and "Research on Shanghai's Construction of an International Exhibition City" as key consulting projects for Shanghai government decisions, "Legislative Research on Shanghai Event Industry", edited book series "Exhibition People", " Blue Book of MICEE Industry", and "30 Years of Chinese Exhibition Research Paper Selection". She was recognized as one of the Top Ten Theorists Influencing Chinese Event Industry in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, and awarded "Outstanding Figure of Chinese Event Industry in the 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up" in 2018.

In 2004, he was a visiting scholar at Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, he was invited by Cross-Strait Common Market Foundation in Taiwan to visit Ming Chuan University and China Television Company. He serves as Deputy Director of Brand Research Center and Deputy Director of Sanjie Sports Communication Research Institute at Shanghai University, and a contracted editor of China Advertising. He is also a senior consultant of Shanghai Xinying International Communication Company and Shanghai Daming Exhibition Company.

He has an interdisciplinary background in management and communication. He has undertaken many provincial and ministerial projects including those supported by Ministry of Education, Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund, Shanghai Science and Technology Development Fund for Soft Sciences, and Shanghai Cultural and Creative Industry Funding. He has participated in major national projects of Ministry of Education, National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. as sub-project leader. He has published high-level SSCI journal papers as corresponding author, over 20 CSSCI core journal papers as first author, 15 papers in other types of journals, and 2 papers reprinted by People's Congress Press. He has published 1 monograph.

Research areas: exhibiting enterprises, strategic management, service management； Research methods: Proficient in academic research software including SPSS, Amos, Stata, MaxDEA, Nvivo, Ucinet, Netdraw, Rost, Antconc, Endnote, etc. Has used structural equation modeling, survival analysis, DEA, regression analysis, factor analysis, content analysis, social network analysis, etc. to write and publish papers. Can write simple web crawlers with Python.

Has undertaken provincial and ministerial projects in Shanghai, Zhejiang, etc., and published dozens of papers in Chinese and English.