When he arrived in Japan a year ago his main purpose was to be a visiting scholar in economics at Tokyo University, where he hoped to gather data and ideas that would be of use in his ongoing research project at the Social Science Institute at Tientsin into Japan's role in the international economy.
他在去年三月來日時，是為了到東京大學經濟學部當客座研究員（相當美國的訪問學者），希望藉著在日本實地觀察與驗證，對他在「天津社會科學院」所鑽研的國際經濟與日本研究有所幫助與啟發。