Professor Zhao Lisheng is mainly engaged in the teaching and research of ethnic sociology. He has published books such as Sociology and Real Social Research and Ethnology Sociology. , and has been published in Ethnic Studies, Social Science Review, Tsinghua University Education Research, Journal of Lanzhou University (Social Science Edition), Northwest Ethnic Studies, Gansu Social Sciences, Guizhou Ethnic Studies, Social Science Research, Qinghai. Among them, 6 copies of sociology, ethnic studies and higher education were reproduced, and Xinhua Digest reproduced 1 article. He completed two social science planning projects in Gansu Province, presided over the special fund project of Lanzhou University "Study on Social and Cultural Changes of Northwest Ethnic Minorities", the major project of the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education in 2005 "Building a Harmonious Ethnic Rural Community-An Empirical Study on Rural Community Integration in Northwest Ethnic Minority Areas", and the western project of the National Social Science Fund in 2007 "Building a Harmonious Community-An Empirical Study on Rural Community Integration in Northwest Ethnic Minority Areas". As the main member, he participated in the major project of the National Social Science Fund in 2008 "Compilation of Teaching Materials of Introduction to Ethnology" (the chief experts of the research group of Marxist theoretical research and construction project "Compilation of Teaching Materials of Introduction to Ethnology": Yang, Shi Yugang, and the main members: Zhang Haiyang,,, Zimud, Dorger, Xu Lili,,,, Yang Zhuhui).