Her research area covers development, international finance, trade, businesses and civil society education. She was a Coordinator of CUFE-VU (Victoria University of Australia) Joint Program from 2004-2008, responsible for project management and communications. Her earliest position was an administrator and interpreter at Foreign Affairs Division of CUFE, from 1987 to 1990. She was a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar in Claremont Graduate University at California from 2011-2012. She also visited Germany and Australia for several times as a scholar active in academic activities. She is now running a 2013 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) Program of “Not Taught in Classroom” (Civil Society Education in China) granted by the International Exchange Alumni of the State Department of the United States.