He is considered one of the most originative scholars in China, and is specially influential in the fields of "the debate in paradigms of Public Management", "publicity" and "public interest".[1] He is the creator of the concept "服务型政府" (Service-oriented government) in China,[2] which has an evident effect on Chinese government's "Building the Service-oriented government" movement. His "In Search of a Ethical Perspective of Public Administration" stirred the Chinese academia in Public Administration, and was considered "open up a new perspective for the research of Public Administration, is very important for the further development of Chinese Public Administration", and "is bound to be one of the classic works in Public Administration in the future."[3]