Rixu Lan is a professor and doctoral advisor at the School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics. He serves as the Director of the Department of Economic History and the Center for Comparative Economic Studies between China and Foreign Countries. He also holds positions such as executive director of the Chinese Economic History Society, director of the National History Society, and vice president of the Chinese Business History Society. Professor Lan is dedicated to the study of financial theory and modern financial history, Sino-foreign economic relations, and business history. He has published eight monographs, including The Path to China's Financial Modernization, Research on the Changes and Performance of China's Modern Banking System, The Road to Economic Power: A History of China's Changing Economic Status, Transformation of China's Modern Banking System from the Late Qing Era to the 1930s (Vols.1 and 2), The Evolution of Sino-Foreign Financial Organizations: A Perspective Based on Market-Technology-Organization and Research on the Development of China's Financial Industry (1949-2019). Professor Lan has also edited six books and contributed to six textbooks, three of which were selected for the National Social Science Fund of China's Foreign Translation Project. He has published over 100 papers, led four projects funded by The National Social Science Fund of China, one project funded by the Ministry of Education's Philosophy and Social Science Research Fund of China, and eleven other projects, and has received four provincial and ministerial-level awards.