A professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Marxism, Beijing Normal University, and director of the university's Research Center of Marxist System and Theory, Xu Bin also serves as a lecturing expert for a course organized by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and Guangming Daily: "100 classes on core socialist values". He is a review expert for the National Social Science Fund of China, and a key member of the Marxist Theory Research and Development Program of the CPC Central Committee. His publications include Why China's Reform Can Succeed and A Rational Choice.