1968 to 1973, Eighth Corps of Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps, agricultural workers, automobile students, members, team leaders and statisticians of the reporting group. 1973 to 1976, students of workers, peasants and soldiers majoring in journalism in Chinese Department of Peking University. From 1976 to 1978, edited by Guangming Daily. 1978- 198 1, a graduate student in the journalism department of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, studied under Professor Wen Jize, with a master's degree in literature. 198 1 Until 2003, I worked in the Institute of Journalism and Communication of China Academy of Social Sciences. Since 1982, he has served as an assistant researcher; From 1985 to 1988, he has been the deputy director of the journalism theory research room (presiding); From 1987, he has been an associate researcher and a postgraduate tutor; And from 1988, he has been the director of the journalism theory research room (1995) and was promoted to a researcher at 1993; 1994 Up to now, member of senior professional title evaluation committee of China Academy of Social Sciences; 1998 so far, as a doctoral supervisor; Later, he served as deputy director of the academic Committee of the Institute of Journalism and Communication of the Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Journalism Research Office; Degree member of journalism department of graduate school. Since 2003, I have worked in the School of Journalism of China Renmin University. My main part-time jobs are: member of the evaluation team of journalism and communication department of the State Council Academic Degree Committee, member of Beijing Social Science Academic Degree Committee, and part-time professors of Zhengzhou University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Shanghai University and Beijing Technology and Business University.

Enjoy the special allowance of the State Council 1993. His main research interests are news theory, Chinese and foreign news history, communication, public opinion and so on. The teaching contents include lectures on Marxist news thoughts, basic courses of world news history, topics on Marx and Engels' news laws, standardized news writing, comments on communication exercises, news theory, communication theory, Chinese and foreign news history, news history theory, and master's thesis writing.

Starting from 1998, special courses will be offered for doctoral students. The main topics are the evolution of Marxist journalism, public opinion, critical school of communication, and the frontier of journalism and communication research.

Main academic achievements: 1979 has published more than 8 million words, including 4 independent works, more than 200 papers and more than 900 general articles. His representative works include Theory of Spiritual Communication (1993), Public Opinion (1999), History of World News Communication (2nd edition, 2007), Marxist News Ideology (2006) and Ten Lectures on News Theory (2008). According to the statistics of CNKI (China Journal Network)1989-201year, in the past 23 years, Chen Lidan ranked first in the field of news communication in Chinese mainland (1000 and 332 1 respectively).