Professor Man is the director of Institute of the North Korean Peninsula at Eastern Liaoning University. He was appointed as a Liaoning committee member, and provides expertise on policy consultation in Dandong (2010-2015). Previously, he was a council member of the international culture exchange department (2009), and was a visiting scholar in the Asia Pacific Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main research areas are regional economic cooperation and the economics and politics of North Korea.