ZHOU Shaojie-School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University

Current Positions

Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University.

Dean, Institution for Contemporary China Studies (ICCS), Tsinghua University.

Director, Center for People’s Livelihoods and Health Policy Research, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University.

Education

Ø Ph.D (Economics), 2007, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Ø M.A. (Management Science), 2002, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China

Ø B.Sc. (Engineering), 1999, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, China

Honors and Awards

Ø 2023, Outstanding Contributor to Party Building and Ideological-Political Work, Tsinghua University.

Ø 2023, Excellent Course Award (University Level), Tsinghua University.

Ø 2022, Excellence in Teaching Award (2021 Academic Year), Tsinghua University.

Ø 2018, Nomination Award for the Qian Xuesen Urban Studies Gold Award (with Shenglong Liu and Angang Hu).

Ø 2017, Fourth Baisheng–Journal of Tsinghua University Outstanding Paper Award (with Angang Hu and Hao Ren).

Ø 2017, Second Prize, 14th Beijing Award for Excellence in Philosophy and Social Sciences (Research Report Category) (with Angang Hu, Yilong Yan, Yuning Gao, Shenglou Liu, and Jiaying Jiang).

Ø 2015, Seventh Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) for Higher Education Institutions, for Report on Contemporary China (1998–2011) (with Angang Hu, Honghua Men, Yahua Wang, Shaoguang Wang, Jun Wen, Yilong Yan, Yong Guo, Yizhi Xiong, Yuning Gao, Linlin Hu, Qungang Wu, and Lei Wang).

Ø 2012, First Prize, Tsinghua University Teaching Achievement Award, for New Explorations in National Education at Tsinghua University — The Development of the 'Theory and Practice for Socialism' Course Series" (with Angang Hu, Yahua Wang, and Yizhi Xiong).

Ø 2010, Dr. Werner Jackstädt Best Paper Award for Chinese Economic and Business Studies, China Economic Quarterly (with Junsen Zhang, and Hongbin Li).

Social Service

Ø Member, the 2nd Expert Committee of the Medium- and Long-Term Youth Development Plan, Communist Youth League Central Committee.

Ø Council Member, the 2nd Council of National Institute of Government Offices Administration.

Ø Executive Council Member, the 3rd China Society for Public Economics, Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C.

Ø Expert, Theory and Labor Relations Think Tank, All-China Federation of Trade Unions.

Ø Committee Member, Fiscal and Economic Advisory Committee of the 7th Decision-Making Advisory Committee, Provincial Committee of the CPC and People's Government of Liaoning Province.

In International Journals

1. Xintong Zhao, Qi Wang, Shaojie Zhou, and Miao Yu. (2025). Association of Telemedicine with Life Satisfaction and Satisfaction with Care in Rural China, Health & Social Care in the Community, (1), 9651831.

2. Shenglong Liu, Xiaoming Zhang, and Shaojie Zhou. (2024). The compulsory education law, female education and fertility: An empirical study in China, Journal of Comparative Economics, 52(3), 679-696.

3. Haijian Wang, Shaojie Zhou, and Penglong Zhang. (2024). Clean heating and clean air: Evidence from the coal-to-gas program in China, China Economic Review, 85, 102179.

4. Tianyu Jin, Tuo Wang, Shaojie Zhou, and Donghao Liu. (2024). Long Working Hours and Job Satisfaction in Platform Employment: An Empirical Study of On-Demand Delivery Couriers in China. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 19(3), 1197-1223.

5. Xiaoping Zhong, Shaojie Zhou, and Xiaohua Yu. (2023). Land market misallocation, regional integration, and economic growth: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region, China. Public Administration and Development, 44(1), 17-31.

6. Meng Li, Yong Geng, Shaojie Zhou, and Joseph Sarkis. (2023). Clean energy transitions and health. Heliyon, 9, e21250.

7. Meng Li and Shaojie Zhou. (2023). Pollutive cooking fuels and rural labor supply: Evidence from a large-scale population census in China. Energy Policy, 183, 113780.

8. Mengyu Ding and Shaojie Zhou. (2023). A Study on the Welfare Equalization Effect of China's Housing Reform，Journal of Government and Economics, 11: 100086.

9. Jun Xie, Shaojie Zhou, Fei Teng, and Alun Gu. (2023). The characteristics and driving factors of household CO2 and non-CO2 emissions in China. Ecological Economics, 213, 107952.

10. Shenglong Liu, Tianyu Jin, Meng Li, and Shaojie Zhou. (2022). Fertility Policy Adjustments and Female Labor Supply: Estimation of Marginal Treatment Effect Using Chinese Census Data，Journal of Human Resources, 0620-10989R.

11. Haifeng Qian, Qi Guo, Shaojie Zhou, and Yang Su. (2023). The Happiness of Chinese Cities, Journal of Urban Affairs, 45(7),1316-1333.

12. Angang Hu and Shaojie Zhou (2022). China: Achieving the Vision of Common Prosperity in 2035. China Economic Transition, 5(1): 1-40.

13. Meng Li, Tianyu Jin, Shenglong Liu, and Shaojie Zhou. (2021). The cost of clean energy transition in rural China: Evidence based on marginal treatment effects, Energy Economics, 97, 105167.

14. Junyi Zhang, Fei Teng, and Shaojie Zhou. (2020). The structural changes and determinants of household energy choices and energy consumption in urban China: Addressing the role of building type, Energy Policy, 139, 111314.

15. Shaojie Zhou, Xiaohua Yu, and Dieter Koemle. (2020). Policy Choices for Air Pollution Abatement in Beijing: Status Quo or Change, Singapore Economic Review, 65 (3):715-736.

16. Qing He, Junyi Liu, Chang Xue, and Shaojie Zhou. (2020). Bureaucratic Integration and Synchronization of Regional Economic Growth: Evidence from China, China Economic Review, 63, 101310.

17. Qing He, Chang Xue, and Shaojie Zhou. (2019). Does contracting institution affect the patterns of industrial specialization in China? China Economic Review, 54, 191-203.

18. Xin Wang, Fei Teng, Gehua Wang, Shaojie Zhou, and Bofeng Cai. (2018). Carbon leakage scrutiny in ETS and non-ETS industrial sectors in China, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 129, 424-431.

19. Carol Graham, Shaojie Zhou and Junyi Zhang. (2017). Happiness and health in China: The paradox of progress, World Development, 96, 231-244.

20. Xin Wang, Fei Teng, Shaojie Zhou, and Bofeng Cai. (2017). Identifying the industrial sectors at risk of carbon leakage in China, Climate Policy, 17(4), 443-457.

21. Shaojie Zhou and Xiaohua Yu. (2017). Regional Heterogeneity of Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Evidence from Hierarchical Ordered Logit Analysis, Social Indicators Research, 132(1), 25–45.

22. Shaojie Zhou and Junsen Zhang. (2016). Chinese Saving Rates from 1953 to 2012: Trends, Composition, and Prospects, Pacific Economic Review, 21(2), 227-252.

23. Shaojie Zhou and Fei Teng. (2013). Estimation of urban residential electricity demand in China using household survey data, Energy Policy,61, 394–402.

24. Dennis Tao Yang, Junsen Zhang, and Shaojie Zhou. (2012). "Why are Saving Rates so High in China?" Chapter 5 of Capitalizing China, edited by Joseph P. H. Fan and Randall Morck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 249-278.

25. Shaojie Zhou. (2012). Explaining the Saving Puzzles in Urban China, Review of Income and Wealth, 58, 504-530.

In Chinese Journals

1. Yu Tong Wei, Xinming Xia, & Shaojie Zhou. (2025). A Linkage Method for Innovation-Oriented Cross-Database Mining Based on Patent and Product Classification Data. Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology). Available online April 1.

2. Angang Hu, Zebang Zhang, & Shaojie Zhou. (2024). Holistic Advancement and Regional Disparities in Chinese Modernization: Historical Retrospect and Outlook Toward 2035. Journal of Social Sciences, (6).

3. Shaojie Zhou, Zebang Zhang, & Tuo Wang. (2024). Revitalizing Northeast China under the New Development Paradigm: Features, Facts, and Policy Recommendations. Economic Review, (6).

4. Shaojie Zhou & Xiaoping Zhong. (2024). The Triple Logic and Policy Paths of Urban-Rural Coordination in the Context of Chinese Modernization. Gansu Social Sciences, (3).

5. Shaojie Zhou & Lu Yang. (2024). Reshaping National Development Governance: A Review of Thirty Years of Tax-Sharing Reform. Economic Theory and Business Management, (5).

6. Shaojie Zhou, Ruixia Geng, & Angang Hu. (2024). Understanding Common Prosperity: Value Logic, Theoretical Logic, Historical Logic, and Practical Logic. Journal of Xinjiang Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition).

7. Shaojie Zhou, Tuo Wang, & Junyi Hu. (2024). A Study on China's Rural Population and Fertility Intentions. Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), (1).

8. Shaojie Zhou & Jing Xue. (2023). Constructing a New Economic Geography for Northeast Revitalization: Reflections on the "Ha-Chang-Shen-Da" Axis Strategy. Journal of Social Sciences, (6).

9. Jing Xue & Shaojie Zhou. (2023). Infrastructure for Transport and Communication: Development, Regional Gaps, and Economic Effects. Management Review, (6).

10. Shaojie Zhou, Zebang Zhang, & Jing Xue. (2023). Understanding China's Consumption Issues: Stylized Facts, Influencing Factors, and Policy Suggestions. Yunnan Social Sciences, (4).

11. Motao Pan, Shaojie Zhou, & Tianhao Zhai. (2023). The Institutional Logic of Poverty and Common Prosperity: The Case of Structural Poverty along the Ming Great Wall. Political Science Research, (1).

12. Ruixia Geng & Shaojie Zhou. (2023). How Active Government Promotes Effective Markets: Evidence from China’s NEV Industry. Financial Market Studies, (February).

13. YuTong Wei, Xinming Xia, & Shaojie Zhou. (2022). Polycentric Evolution and Regional Balanced Development of Provincial Spatial Structure. Economic Geography, (11).

14. Ruixia Geng, Angang Hu, & Shaojie Zhou. (2022). North-South Gap in China's Economic Development: Basic Assessment, Causes, and Policy Suggestions. Journal of the Party School of the Central Committee of CPC (National Academy of Governance), (5).

15. Jing Xue & Shaojie Zhou. (2022). Accessibility and Popularity of Communication and Transportation Infrastructure: An Entropy and Threshold Model Approach. Exploration of Economic Issues, (7).

16. Haijian Wang, Yunyan Xue, & Shaojie Zhou. (2022). Has Overcapacity Policy Improved Firm Performance? Empirical Evidence from Listed Manufacturing Firms. Economic Theory and Business Management, (1).

17. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2022). China 2035: Towards Common Prosperity. Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition).

18. Hongshu Wang, Shaojie Zhou, Xinwei Shi, & Angang Hu. (2021). Strategic Asset Seeking in Overseas M&A by Local SOEs: Empirical Evidence. Chinese Journal of Management, (3).

19. Xiao Tang, Shaojie Zhou, Xinrui Zhao, & Yufei Wang. (2020). Responsive Spillover and Central-Local Relations: Evidence from Public Environmental Satisfaction in China. Management World, (6).

20. Xueni Li, Yang Su, & Shaojie Zhou. (2019). How Does Air Quality Affect Subjective Satisfaction? Evidence from Micro Data in China. China Population, Resources and Environment, (12).

21. Shaojie Zhou, Hualiu Yang, & Junyi Zhang. (2019). China’s New Anti-Poverty Strategy After 2020: Achievements, Goals, Approaches, and Policy Proposals. Chinese Public Administration, (11).

22. Wei Zhang, Jun Han, & Shaojie Zhou. (2019). Urban Residents’ Water Demand in China. China Population, Resources and Environment, (3).

23. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2019). Xi Jinping’s Economic Thought in the New Era: Background, Theoretical System, and Key Areas. Journal of Xinjiang Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), (3).

24. Hualiu Yang, Shaojie Zhou, & Angang Hu. (2018). Chinese-style Poverty Alleviation: Practice, Achievements, Experience and Prospects. Journal of National Academy of Governance, (6), 138–142.

25. Xin Zhang, Shaojie Zhou, & Jinwei Yao. (2018). Settlement Decision, Hukou Intention and Social Integration: Evidence from China's Urban Migrants. Journal of Humanities, (4), 39–48.

26. Xin Zhang, Angang Hu, & Shaojie Zhou. (2017). Xi Jinping’s Economic Thinking and Global Governance Action Framework. Frontiers of Scholarship, (10), 3–12.

27. Xiao Tang, Shaojie Zhou, Yuanhao Liu, & Angang Hu. (2017). Are Administrative Incentives the Main Reason for China’s Environmental Performance Improvements? China Population, Resources and Environment, (9).

28. Hao Ren, Shaojie Zhou, & Angang Hu. (2017). Synergistic Growth of Knowledge-Intensive Services and High-Tech Manufacturing. China Soft Science, (8).

29. Xin Zhang, Shaojie Zhou, & Jinwei Yao. (2017). Can the New Rural Cooperative Medical System Create Another Demographic Dividend? Research on Financial and Economic Issues, (8).

30. Jiayun Xu, Shaojie Zhou & Angang Hu. (2017). Institutional distance, neighboring effects and bilateral trade: an empirical analysis based on spatial panel model of “one belt and one road” countries, Journal of Finance and Economics, (1).

31. Angang Hu, Yufeng Lu, Shaojie Zhou & Zhusong Yang. (2016). The three logics of supply-side structural reforms in China, Journal of China National School of Administration, (6).

32. Shaojie Zhou, Shenglong Liu & Angang Hu. (2016). Effect of electricity development on China’s economic growth and its regional difference, China Population Resources and Environment, (8).

33. Anggang Hu, Wei Wang, Shaojie Zhou & Yufeng Lu. (2016). China innovating “new economy”: from shrinking “digital divide” to gaining “digital dividend”, Journal of China National School of Administration, (3).

34. Angang Hu, Hao Ren, Yufeng Lu & Shaojie Zhou. (2016). China striding across middle-income trap: from the perspective of five developmental concepts, Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), (5).

35. Shenglong Liu, Shaojie Zhou & Angang Hu. (2016). Compulsory Education Law and Economic return to Education in Urban China: Based on Regression Discontinuity Design, Economic Research Journal, (2).

36. Angang Hu, Shaojie Zhou & Hao Ren. (2016). The Strategic Innovations Towards Adapting to and Leading China’s New Normal Status, Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), (2).

37. Angang Hu, Shaojie Zhou & Yufeng Lu. (2015). Reshaping Chinese Economic Geography: from Version 1.0 to Version 4.0, Economic Geography, (12).

38. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2015). How to cultivate the economic growth momentum in China, People's Tribune, (9).

39. Shaojie Zhou, Hongchuan Wang & Yang Su. (2015). How Chinese can achieve a higher level of happiness: an empirical study based on Chinese Livelihood Survey, Management World, (6).

40. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2015). The thirteenth Five-year planning: economic structural adjustments and upgrading and long-run outlook, Journal of China National School of Administration, (2).

41. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2014). Green development: functional definition, mechanism analysis and development strategy, China Population Resources and Environment, (1).

42. Angang Hu, Hongchuan Wang & Shaojie Zhou. Assessment of Public Service Development during China’s 11th Five-Year Plan Period, Chinese Public Administration, (4).

43. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2012). Understanding economic development and social progress: perspective of national wellbeing, China Soft Science Magazine, (1).

44. Shenglong Liu & Shaojie Zhou. (2011). Why Does China s Residents Consumption Demand Continuously Decrease, The Journal of Quantitative and Technical Economics, (9).

45. Shenglong Liu & Shaojie Zhou. (2011). Availability of infrastructure and income growth of rural residents in China: evidence from the static and dynamic unbalanced panel data, Chinese Rural Economy, (1).

46. Shaojie Zhou. (2010). Precautionary saving behavior of urban residents in China，The Journal of World Economy, (8) .

47. Shaojie Zhou, Youqiang Wang & Cunyi Yin. (2010). Collaborative development among regions in China: functional definition and mechanism analysis, Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), (2).

48. Shaojie Zhou, Junsen Zhang & Hongbin Li. (2009). Household Income, Household Consumption and Household Saving Behavior of Chinese Urban Households: a Cohort Analysis, China Economic Quarterly, (4). (Dr. Werner Jackstädt Best Paper Award for Chinese Economic and Business Studies, China Economic Quarterly).

49. Shaojie Zhou, Youqiang Wang & Dapeng Lu. (2009). The Budget System of European Union and its Enlightenment to China s Fiscal System, Chinese Public Administration, (12).

50. Youqiang Wang, Dapeng Lu & Shaojie Zhou. (2009). The Fiscal Actions of Local Governments: Local Fiscal Capacity and Local Development, Chinese Public Administration, (2).

51. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2002). How does China deal with the enlarging ‘digital divide’? , China Industrial Economy, (3).

52. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2002). The New Global Gap: The Enlarging “Digital Divide”, Social Science in China, 2002(3).

53. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2001). Harnessing Information for Development in China: Narrowing the Gap, China Industrial Economy, (1).

54. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2000). The Internet Economy: the New Development Strategy for China in the 21st Century, China Industrial Economy, (6).

Books

1. Xiaojuan Jiang, Weimin Yang, Fang Cai, Wei Liu, Angang Hu, Lan Xue, & Shaojie Zhou (Eds.). (2024). The Evolution and Prospects of China's Economic Development Model. People's Publishing House. (Selected as an Outstanding Academic Work of 2024 by People's Publishing House)

2. Angang Hu, Shaojie Zhou, & Wenyin Cheng. (2023). Great Rejuvenation: National Conditions of Chinese-style Modernization. Tsinghua University Press. (in Chinese)

3. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2022). China 2035: Building a Society of Common Prosperity. Oriental Publishing House. (in Chinese)

4. Shaojie Zhou & Angang Hu. (2021). China: Surpassing the “Middle Income Trap”. Palgrave Macmillan. Open Access.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-6540-3

5. Angang Hu & Shaojie Zhou. (2024). China in 2035: Towards a Society of Common Prosperity for All. Palgrave Macmillan. Open Access.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-0938-0

6. Angang Hu, Shaojie Zhou, Yan Yilong, et al. (2020). The 14th Five-Year Plan Grand Strategy and 2035 Long-Term Vision. People's Oriental Publishing House. (in Chinese)

7. Shaojie Zhou & Angang Hu. (2018). China’s Leap Over the Middle-Income Trap. Zhejiang People’s Publishing House. (in Chinese)

8. Angang Hu, Yilong Yan, Shaojie Zhou, et al. (2015). The 13th Five-Year Plan Grand Strategy. Zhejiang People’s Publishing House. (in Chinese)

1. Xi Jinping's Economic Thought: Theoretical System, Strategic Layout, and Policy Framework, Double First-Class Humanities Project on the Interpretation of the Party’s Innovative Theory, Tsinghua University, 2024–2026. PI.

2. Development Models and Fiscal Support Policies for Rural Elderly Care Services Suitable to China's National Conditions, High-End Think Tank Project, Jun–Nov 2024 (¥100,000). PI.

3. Research on the Development of the Silver Economy, Self-initiated project, Institute for National and Global Governance, Tsinghua University (¥50,000). PI.

4. High-Quality Development of Manufacturing and Producer Services in Jinan, Jinan Bureau of Statistics, Jun–Nov 2024 (¥280,000). PI.

5. Digital Skills Enhancement Model and Training System for Female Workers, All-China Federation of Trade Unions, Jun–Nov 2023 (¥200,000). PI.

6. Solid Promotion of Common Prosperity, High-End Think Tank Project, Jun–Nov 2023 (¥100,000). PI.

7. Research on the Role of Central SOEs in Supporting Regional Development Strategies, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), Dec 2022–Aug 2023 (¥250,000). PI.

8. Fertility Policy, Birth Choices, and Human Capital Investment: Evidence Based on Census Data, Tsinghua University Key Research Project, Jul 2022–Dec 2024 (¥230,000). PI.

9. China's Economic Development Model and Its Characteristics, Major Project of Marxist Theory Research and Development Program / National Social Science Foundation (PI: Jiang Xiaojuan, Project No.2021MZD016), Subproject 3: Economic Development Model and Macroeconomic Regulation, 2021–2023 (¥600,000). Zhou served as general coordinator and subproject leader.

10. The Impact of Population Aging on Economic Growth and Policy Options (Subproject 4: Aging-induced Changes in Consumption and Structural Transformation), Major Project of National Social Science Foundation (PI: Zhang Junsen, Zhejiang University, Project No.20&ZD076), Jan. 2020 – Dec. 2025 (¥800,000). National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, China. Subproject leader.

11. Supply-side Structural Reform: Empirical Research and Public Policy, Independent Research Project, Tsinghua University, 2018–2020 (¥230,000). PI.

12. Income distribution and saving rates during China’s economic transition: evidence and policy implication, The National Natural Science Funds (General Program), Project No: 71273006, 2013-2016, (No. 71273006).

13. Public Services and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Large-Scale Household Surveys, Tsinghua Independent Research Project, 2012 (No. 20121088000).

14. Income Distribution and Savings Propensity in Economic Transformation, National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project, 2009 (No. 70903039).

15. Housing Reform, Housing Allocation, and Household Consumption, Ministry of Education Social Science Fund Youth Project, 2009 (No. 09YJC790162).

16. Strategic Development of Technical and Vocational Education in Shanxi Province, Asian Development Bank, 2008. International Expert.