Gao Xiwen holds a PhD in Law from the School of Marxism at Tongji University and is currently an Associate Research Fellow. He serves as Party Secretary of the Joint Party Committee of the School of Mathematics, Physics and Foreign Languages at Shanghai University of Engineering Science.

With long-standing experience in Party affairs, he has been engaged in the teaching and research of ideological and political education as well as Party building. He has published multiple papers in CSSCI-indexed and Chinese core journals, and has led several provincial and ministerial-level projects, including a Shanghai Municipal Philosophy and Social Science Planning Program project, a Shanghai municipal Party building project, and the Shanghai Sunshine Plan.

His honors include being recognized as an Outstanding Party Affairs Worker under the Shanghai Municipal Education and Health Work Party Committee, a Shanghai Sunshine Scholar, and an Outstanding Communist Party Member of Shanghai University of Engineering Science. He has also won the First Prize for papers on Party history and Party building awarded by the Shanghai Municipal Education and Health Work Party Committee, and the Third Prize for such papers at the national level.