His main research areas are education governance and education policy, with a particular focus on population change and education reform, extracurricular education, educational anxiety, the "double reduction" policy, migrant children and left-behind children, academic achievement, and family education. He has published more than 20 SSCI and CSSCI papers in journals such as *Education Development Research*, *Education and Economy*, *Teacher Education Research*, *Tsinghua University Education Research*, and *Journal of Capital Normal University (Social Sciences Edition)*. He has presided over and participated in several national and provincial-level projects, and has received policy instructions from provincial and ministerial leaders for two special reports. Many of his papers have been reprinted in publications such as *Xinhua Digest*, *Renmin University of China Press*, and *Education Digest Weekly*.