Chinese mainland expert on Taiwan issues. Executive Vice President of the National Society of Taiwan Studies. He graduated in International Journalism from the University of International Relations in 1964. From 1967 to 1996, he worked as Xinhua correspondent in Tanzania, Guangming Daily correspondent and bureau chief in Lebanon and UK, People's Daily bureau chief in the United Nations, and the director of the International Department Taiwan Studies. In 1996, he took the post as president of the CASS Institute of Taiwan Studies.