Zhang Youqun was born in October 1962. He is currently a philosophy teacher and master's tutor in the School of Social Development of Yangzhou University. Since 1994, he has studied for a master's degree and a doctor's degree from professor Liu Linyuan, a famous Marxist philosopher in the philosophy department of Nanjing university.He graduated from doctor's degree in 2001 and received a doctor's degree in philosophy. Since then, he has been engaged in the teaching and research of Marxist philosophy in Yangzhou University. He has successively published five books, such as "Historical Mission of Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals" and "Monument of History". He has successively published more than 40 academic papers in magazines, such as "Jianghai Journal", "Journal of Yangzhou University" and "Jiangsu Social Science". Among them, "Monument of History" has won the "Five and One Engineering Awards" of Jiangsu Province. Relevant research results on Marxist philosophy, Mao Zedong philosophy, Deng Xiaoping philosophy, etc.which have had a better impact and higher evaluation in the academic circle. He has been honored many times as an outstanding teacher of Yangzhou university, the most popular teacher among students, an outstanding communist party member, and an outstanding party worker.