Zhang Zhongxiang,Director,professor and doctoral supervisor of the Center for African Studies,Shanghai Normal University,Vicepresident of Asia-Africa Association of China and Chinese Society of African Historical Studies.He is a visiting scholar at Kenyatta University in Kenya and has visited Africa many times.Main research field for Africa and China-Africa relations history,published Studies of Nehru Diplomacy（China Social Sciences Press,2002）,Studies of Forum on Chine Africa Cooperation（World Knowledge Press,2012）and Guide to the World States: Mali（Social Sciences Academic Press,2018）,and other books,published more than 60 papers.He has presided over the completion of one key project of the National Social Science Fund and nine provincial-level projects.In 2003 and 2008,he won the third prize of Zhejiang Provincial Outstanding Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Science（Works）.In 2016,he won the Outstanding Achievement Award of Sino-African Joint Research and Exchange Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.