Zheng Jiyong was born in Suixian, Henan Province. He currently serves as Professor and Director at Center for Korean Studies, Fudan University and professor at the Center for Collaborative Innovation on Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights, China. He got his Doctoral Degree at Fudan University, and had post-doctoral experiences at IFES, Kyungnam University, ROK, and KimIlSung University, DPRK. His research focuses on domestic politics in the two Koreas and bilateral and multilateral relations related to the Korean peninsula. He is the author and coauthor of more than forty scholarly articles and author or editor of five books, including ROK's Political Party Systems 2008, and ROK's Congress Politics 2017, and 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.