Director General, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of SocialSciences(CASS, 2014-)，Secretary General, China-CEEC Think Tank Network(2015-). Main research fields include: soicial development, globalization and Chinese way, pluralism and diversity, US -China relations, and European studies. Major publications include: Survival; Unfinished interpretations; Development: Understanding and Misunderstanding; Motherland in my Dream: Social Change, Globalization, and China Way towards Modernity; Our Era: Where did Modern China come from and where will it go for? (Co-author,with Han Yuhai, Yao Yang).