Nie Fenghua is deputy Party secretary of the CPC Tsinghua Holdings committee and president of the company. He also holds posts as deputy director of the Ministry of Education's Research Center for Online Education, secretary-general of the University-Enterprise Cooperation on Education Innovation Research Association under the China Association of Higher Education, deputy director of the editorial board of Modern Educational Technology, a national academic journal.

Nie has previously served as the deputy secretary of the Communist Youth League of China Tsinghua University committee, deputy head of the student department of the CPC Tsinghua University committee, director of the Tsinghua University Property Management Center, and secretary of Party committee and vice dean of Tsinghua PBCSF. 

He was awarded as an excellent cadre of the Communist Youth League of China in Beijing, an excellent Party member in Tsinghua University, and as an advanced worker of the university. At the university, he has also won first and second prizes for educational achievements.