Gu Wei is currently associate professor at Institute of International Relations (IIRS), Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). 
Her main research areas are regional cooperation and regional strategy, regionalism and regional integration, Russian foreign policy, and Sino-Russian relations. 
In the recent years, she had published 2 books and over 30 papers on several leading Chinese journals as World Economics and Politics, China International Studies, and Foreign Affairs Review etc. 
Her books include:
1. The China-Russia Strategic Partnership of Coordination and the Evolution of Order in Eurasia (2018, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press)
2. Dual Structure and Russia’s Regional Integration Policy (2020, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press)