Participated in or presided over a number of social science research projects, mainly including: British International Seafarers Research Center project' Female Seafarers in European Merchant Ships',' Gender, Race and Class: Employment and Labor Process of Seafarers on Multinational Luxury Cruises',' Comparative Study on the Influence of Seafarers' Occupation on Seafarers' Families in China, Britain and China '( 1998-2002), and the project' Survey of Seafarers' Labor Market in State-owned Enterprises in (2002). China International Labour Office's project "Seafarers: Global Policy and Practice" (200 1-2), British International Transport Workers Foundation/British International Seafarer Research Center's joint research project "Research on the Change of the Relationship between the Grass-roots Representatives of the China Party and the Working Class under the Market Economy: Analysis on the Change of the Political Commissar's Role of Ocean Shipping in China" (200 1), in cooperation with scholars from the School of Social and Philosophical Studies of "An University". Participated in and presided over research projects: the topic "Structure and Change of Seafarers' Labor Market: Present Situation Description and Trend Analysis" by the Graduate School of Greenwich Maritime University (2004-2005), the key project of British Economic and Social Science Fund "Equal Pay and Equality for Men and Women: A Study on the Promotion of Female Workers in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan" (2003-2006), and the cooperation project between China Labor Research Center of Beijing Normal University and the Department of Political Science of Sun Yat-sen University School of Management.