Before retiring, Zhang was a major general, a postdoctoral tutor of National Defense University, a former deputy director of the Military Logistics and Military Science and Technology Equipment Department, and a leader of military equipment science.

Zhang worked in the navy at the grass-roots level, worked in Iraq where the war broke out for more than two years, experienced the war, presided over military scientific research as a military scientific research leader, and participated in national defense propaganda as a military commentator for many years.

Zhang Xian graduated from the Department of Oriental Languages in Peking University, and then studied at the Royal Academy of Military Sciences.

Yin Zhuo is also the director of the naval informatization expert committee, but his research direction is different from Zhang's. Zhang mainly studies equipment research and development, while Yin Zhuo studies tactics, focusing on strategy and equipment as a supplement.

Yin Zhuo graduated from Paris University and Grenoble University, and graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. His highest education is the naval department of the French military academy and the advanced class of the French synthetic army.

Song Xiaojun graduated from Dalian Army Military Academy, majoring in radar and sonar technology. He served in the army for a long time, and then worked in Ship Knowledge magazine.