Zheng Jiyong currently serves as Professor and Director at the Center for Korean Studies, Fudan University, and Chief Expert of the Major Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China, and Vice Chairman of the China Association of Korean Studies. Zheng Jiyong joined the army and studied at the University of Foreign Languages, the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 1991, he was assigned to research the military and diplomacy of the Korean Peninsula. In 2009, he retired from the army and joined Fudan University. He received his Doctoral Degree at Fudan University and has had post-doctoral experiences at IFES, Kyungnam University, ROK(2009/09-2010/12) and in Kim Il Sung University, DPRK(2014/07-11), and was a visiting scholar in Seoul National University, ROK(2016/09-2017/09), in The Henry L. Stimson Center(2019/07-2020/07), and a KT&G senior visiting fellow in the Sejong Institute, ROK(2021/09-2022/09). His research focuses on domestic politics in the two Koreas, on bilateral and multilateral relations related to the Korean peninsula, and the policy-making process in DPRK, China, and ROK. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 scholarly articles and books, including ROK's Political Party Systems (2008), ROK’s Parliamentary Politics (2017), and North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War (2019), The “Conflict-Reconciliation” Cycle on the Korean Peninsula: A Chinese Perspective (2012), and Road Map to a Korean Peninsula Peace Regime: A Chinese Perspective (2015). He can be reached at +8613917299175 and zhengjiyong@fudan.edu.cn.