Background
He also works as a professor and Doctor of Philosophy supervisor in Soochow University.He was born in Dafeng, Jiangsu Province, People"s Republic of China. Zhu Yongxin was born August 1958 in Dafeng County, Jiangsu. His father is a local teacher in Dafeng.Zhu entered Soochow University in 1977, majoring in educational psychology, as the first enrollment through Gaokao after the Cultural Revolution.
Career
After two years, he was sent to study at Shanghai Normal University to meet the shortfall of teachers at Soochow University. Since returning to Suzhou in 1982, Zhu had been teaching and doing research at Soochow University and became an associate Professor in 1987. He has also taken the position dean of Affairs Office at Soochow University by 1997.
After that, Zhu entered the government, becoming vice mayor of Suzhou and is responsible for education, science, culture,and health field
Until 2007, he was selected to the vice chairman of China Association for Promoting Democracy. Professor Zhu Yongxin researches on education of China, over the past 20 years, he has published more than 400 papers on education and over 30 works domestically and abroad.
He is also the editor of "Contemporary Japanese Education Series", "education in the new century library", "new education" and others Furthermore, he has undertaken the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization commissioned research projects, National Natural Science Fund, the National Social Science fund.
As a professor and Doctor of Philosophy advisor in Suzhou University, Zhu is the initiator of the program New Education in China.
He proposed the ideal of education in 2002, in that program, he draws a blueprint for a quality education system in contemporary China. By 2013, there are more than 1500 experimental school participated in New Education in China among 25 provinces, and over 1500 thousand teachers and students have taken part in this program He is the author of Works by Zhu Yongxin on Education Series, they are shown as follows: The History of Chinese Ancient Educational Thoughts The History of Chinese Modern Educational Thoughts The History of Chinese Contemporary Educational Thoughts The Research of Native Chinese Psychology My Vision on Education My Vision on Reading The New-Style Education of China Lectures on the New-Style Education Dialogues on the New-Style Education On the Way to the New-Style Education Analects of the New-Style Education of China Observation on the Education of China Observations on Foreign Education Analects of Educational Psychology Discourses on the Education of China Advice on the Education of China.