Director of the development and planning department of the National Institute of Governance, a researcher at the Chinese rural governance research center, the secondary professor of the department of sociology in HUST,the doctoral supervisor. Deputy editor of Journal of HUST (social science edition), distinguished professor of “central China scholars” of HUST, member of academic committee. Mainly engaged in the political sociology, political anthropology,historical sociology and Chinese rural governance study. His magnum opuses have “the authority and order in a village’s governance change-the e­xpression of Shuang village of the 20th century” and “The noise of the small town-the deduction and explanation of a small town’s political operation ", etc. He won the Publicity Department of the CPC’s prize of “Five-One Project” and “National Excellent 100 Doctoral Dissertation” and so many awards.