Xiaojiong Ding is associate professor at the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences. She serves as key member of the Center for International Education Study at the Ministry of Education and vice chairperson of the Academic Board of the Institute of Higher Education, and is member of the Shanghai Association of Comparative Education. She participates actively in educational policy making at the national and municipal levels. Among other works, Ding was one of the chief editors of Focusing on the Legislation of Minban Education (Beijing: Educational Sciences, 2001), and member of the editorial review board of Green Book of Education in China 2001 (Beijing: Educational Sciences, 2001). She has also published about sixty articles and book chapters on private and minban education, educational policies, policy implementation, and international and comparative education, including the journal of The China Quarterly and the Journal of Contemporary China.