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Distinguished Professor of Wu Yuzhang Chair at Renmin University of China; Dean of the School of Information Resource Management; Director of the Key Laboratory of Multimodal Archival Preservation and Development, National Archives Administration of China; Director of the Beijing Academic Center for the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Vice President of the Society of Chinese Archives; Deputy Director of the Academic Committee on Scientific and Technological Archives and Scientific Data Management under the Society of Chinese Archives; Deputy Secretary-General of the National Technical Committee on Information and Documentation Standardization. Chief Expert of Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China; Chief Expert of Major Special Projects of the Ministry of Education Social Science Fund; Leading Expert of the National Archives Talents Program. Primary research areas: electronic records management, digital archives, computational archival science, and data governance. Author of 21 monographs and textbooks, with over 100 published papers; participated in the formulation of multiple archival laws and regulations; recipient of 12 provincial/ministerial-level teaching and research awards.

Major Research Projects

Principal investigator for projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China (Major, Key, and General Programs), the Ministry of Education Social Science Fund (Major Program), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Archives Administration of China (Key and General Science and Technology Programs), the inaugural entrusted projects of the National Data Bureau, as well as commissioned consulting projects from multiple institutions including the National Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference Office for Electronic Records Management, the National Archives Administration, the National Administration of State Secrets Protection, the Beijing Municipal Archives Administration, the Zhejiang Provincial Archives, the Hangzhou Municipal Archives Administration, the Shenzhen Municipal Archives, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Archives, the Macao Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau, Sinopec, PetroChina, and Sinochem.

Representative projects led include:

1. Major Project of the National Social Science Fund: Computational Archival Science in the Context of the New Generation of Artificial Intelligence (Project No. 24&ZD326)

2. Major Special Project of the Ministry of Education Philosophy and Social Sciences Research: Practical Innovation Research on the Self-Knowledge System of China's Information Resource Management Discipline (Approval No. 2025JZDZ098)

3. Key Project of the National Social Science Fund: Strategic Research on Digital Archives Development in China—An Ecosystem Perspective (Project No. 16AZD054)

4. General Project of the National Social Science Fund: Research on the Centralized Management Model and Strategy of Digital Archives in China's Local Governments (Project No. 09BTQ031)

5. Key Science and Technology Project of the National Archives Administration: Research on the National Records (Archives) Management Model in the Structured Data Environment (Project No. 2023Z001)

6. Inaugural Entrusted Project of the National Data Bureau: Firmly Grasping the Strategic Positioning of Data Undertakings in the National Development Landscape and Promoting the Institutional Mechanisms for Data Undertakings Development (2024)

7. Major Planning Project of Renmin University of China: Construction of the China Red Literature Archival Resource Repository (2022–2025)

8. Science and Technology Project of the National Archives Administration: Research on Digital Archives Development in Cultural Heritage Preservation Institutions (Project No. 2022-X-072)

9. Entrusted Project of the PetroChina Archives: Research on Collaborative Management of Enterprise Archives and Data Assets of PetroChina, 2021

10. Entrusted Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Archives: Policy Research on Collaborative Governance of Scientific Data and Research Archives, 2020

Academic Achievements

Published over 100 theoretical articles in both Chinese and international journals and newspapers on topics including electronic records management, digital archives, data governance, and computational archival science; authored 9 monographs and 12 textbooks; developed 3 national standards. Representative monographs include: Strategic Research on Digital Archives Development in China from an Ecosystem Perspective (2024), Research on the Centralized Management Model of Digital Archives in Local Governments (2017), and Establishing a New Order: Research on the Process of Electronic Records Management (2005). Received over ten provincial/ministerial-level achievement awards, including the First Prize of the Outstanding Research Achievement Award in Higher Education Institutions from the Ministry of Education and the First Prize for Outstanding Achievements from the National Archives Administration.

Courses Taught

Teaches courses including Electronic Records Management, Data Governance, Theory and Practice of Digital Archives, and Academic Norms and Paper Writing. Among these, Electronic Records Management has been recognized as a National First-Class Undergraduate Course. The online version of this course is available on China University MOOC （https://www.icourse163.org/course/RUC-1470424189?from=searchPage&outVendor=zw_mooc_pcssjg_）and XuetangX （https://www.xuetangx.com/course/ruc08091010707/31385792?channel=i.area.recent_search）