He was born in Shandong Province in 1973. He got his Bachelor of Law (1995), Master of Law (1998), and Doctor of Law (2001) from Law School of Renmin University of China in succession, majored in the Economic Law. He studied at the PKU Guanghua School of Management as a post-doctoral majored in Industrial Organization Theory from 2001 to 2003. After that, he joined the faculty of PKU Law School. He visited Harvard University as a Harvard-Yenching fellow from 2006 to 2007, focusing on the historical law and economics. Now, he serves as co-director of Institute of Law and Economics, PKU.