Zhang Mengying, Ph.D. candidate of the Department of West-Asian and African Studies of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), graduated from the University of Alberta, Canada, with a Bachelor of Economics Honors in 2010, and then got a Master's degree in economics in 2011 from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She used to serve as an editor of Social Sciences in China Press. She single authored a research article entitled“Analysis of the International Media Coverage of the Influence of Chinese Economic Slowdown on African Economy, ”and co-authored an article“China's Role in Peace and Security Cooperation in the Gulf of Guinea Region”.