Professor Hu Zhengrong is Professor of Communication, Director of the National Center for Radio & TV Studies, Director of China Institute of International Communication Strategy and Vice President, Communication University of China, Chair of the China Association of Communication.

Professor Hu’s research areas are media policy and institutional transition, media development strategy, media management, and political economy of communication.

He has chaired and accomplished research projects in China from the National Social Sciences Foundation, the National Commission of Reform and Development, the Ministry of Education, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), and Beijing Municipal Government.

He has published papers on Chinese media in transition for numerous leading Chinese journals including The Chinese Broadcasting Academic Journal and Modern Communication. He is the author of 10 influential books such as the 30 Years of Chinese Media : 1978-2008 (2008), Media Reality and Beyond (2004), etc.

Hu is the chair of Journalism and Communication Discipline Evaluation, State Council’s Committee of Degrees, a member of the Advisory Committee of Journalism and Communication Education in China, Ministry of Education; member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Journalists Association; members of the editorial committees of Media Asia (Singapore), Journal of Communication Research (Korea), Global Media and Communication (UK); member of the Advisory Committee of the Asia Media, Information and Communication Center (AMIC);

Dr. Hu has been a visiting scholar at University of Durham, Britain (2001), Simon Fraser University, Canada (2002-2003), and a research fellow at Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2005), Leverhulme visiting professor at University of Westminster (2006).