She serves as the vice president of China Association of Education Finance Research, and has been working as consultant for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and Ford Foundation. Her main teaching and research areas of economics of education, education finance, and vocational and technical education reform evaluation. She has working experiences in leading research universities in the U.S.A., and the Netherlands. Since 2014, she has visited Finnish universities and ministries in order to promoting Finnish experiences of developing universities of applied sciences in China. She has published in peer reviewed SSCI journals and received research grants from China’s National Science Foundation and Ministry of Education.