He is vice-chairman, deputy secretary-general and executive director of China International Finance Society.
[4] His grandfather Chen Xu (陈恕) was an educator who settled down in British Hong Kong after the Chinese Civil War.
In 1957 when Mao Zedong launched his Anti-Rightist Movement against intellectuals, his father was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm work, in Yangtai Village of Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei, where he was born.
In May 2005 he was promoted to become its vice-president, he remained in that position until March 2010, when he was transferred to Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) and appointed the president.
[6] After a year and half, he was transferred back to Renmin University and served as the president there, a position at vice-ministerial level.