Chief journalist at the Gaza Bureau of the Xinhua News Agency; once worked at the Jerusalem bureau and the Asia-Pacific bureau (Hong Kong); started to work at the Reference News Department of the Xinhua News Agency in 1990; bachelor of the Department of Mechanic Engineering of Tsinghua University; bachelor of China Journalism School (run by Xinhua News Agency from 1986 to 2002); visiting scholar of the school of journalism of the University of Hawaii System, scholar of Lee Kuan Yew research in John F. Kennedy School of Government; postgraduate of Lee Kuang Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore.