ZHAO Jing-School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University

Jing Zhao is an associate professor at the School of Public Policy & Management at Tsinghua University, and an associate director at Tsinghua’s Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance. Her research focuses on policy process theories, environmental and industrial policies, and emerging economy regulation. Her research has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Fund of China, and Tsinghua University. Her research appears on journals like Public Administration, Policy Studies Journal, Nature Cities, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Environmental Science & Technology, and Environmental Research Letters. Jing was a visiting scholar in the Department of Political Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. in Geographic Information System at the School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, and her Ph.D. in Public Administration at the School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University.

2025 Jing Zhao, Yiqi Tang*, Xufeng Zhu, Junming Zhu, “National environmental monitoring and local enforcement strategies”, Nature Cities, 2025, 2:58-69.

2024 Wenhui Yang, Jing Zhao*, Hao Zhou. “Information nudges and tax compliance: Evidence from a field experiment in China”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228: 106779.

2024 Tianhao Chen, Wei Xu, Jing Zhao*. “The Court as a Policy Information Discoverer: Evidence from China’s Emerging Industries”, China Law and Society Review, 9(1): 1-24

2024 Wenhui Yang, Jing Zhao*. “Blue Sky, Cold Heart: The Political Cost of Environmental Regulation”, Public Administration, 102(3):984-1007.

2023 Jing Zhao, Xufeng Zhu*. “Spreading Expertise: Think Tanks as Digital Advocators in the Social Media Era Policy and Society”, Policy and Society, 43(3): 359-377.

2023 Wenhui Yang, Jing Zhao*. “Institutions, Interests and Policy Support: Experimental Evidence from China”, Public Administration, 101(4): 1309-1325.

2022 Jing Zhao, Mingzhe Wang, Junming Zhu*. “Household energy transition and social status: Evidence from large-scale heating renovation in China”, Environmental Research Letters, 17: 115011.

2021 Zhao, B#., Zhao, J# (Co-first Author)., Zha, H. et al. “Health Benefits and Costs of Clean Heating Renovation: An Integrated Assessment in a Major Chinese City”. Environmental Science & Technology, (14),55:10046-10055.

2020 Hao Cha, Youlang Zhang, Jing Zhao, Xufeng Zhu*, “Citizen Assessments of Government Actions in the COVID-19 Outbreak in China”, Chinese Public Administration Review, (2):110-121.

2020 Lan Xue, Jing Zhao*, “Truncated decision-making and deliberative implementation: a time-based policy process model for transitional China”, Policy Studies Journal, (2),48:298-326.

2019 Xufeng Zhu*, Jing Zhao, “The new media influence of China’s think tanks and various patterns based on big data evaluation method”, China Policy Journal, (2):113-136.

2014 Yuzhe Wang, Jing Zhao*, Cheryl S.F. Chi, “China’s energy reduction policy system: outcomes and responses of local governments,” China & World Economy, (3):56-78.

2024-2027 “Social Impacts and Governance of Algorithm Applications in the Intelligent Era”, National Social Science Foundation of China Key Project, PI

2024-2025 “Research on the Optimization of the Funding Mechanism of the Young Scientist Fund”, National Social Science Foundation of China, PI

2024-2026 “The Theory of Public Policy in China”, Beijing Social Science Found Young Academic Leader Project, PI

2022-2024 “The Formation and Influence Mechanism of Policy Feedback: A Theoretical and Empirical Study based on Heterogeneous Public Opinions”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI

2019-2021 “Smart Decision-making and Implementation Model: The empirical studies based on public policy process in several policy fields,” National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI

2017-2019 “Truncated Decision-making and Implementation as Deliberation: the Change for China’s Policy Process,” National Social Science Fund of China, PI

2018-2020 “Time Dimension Angle for Policy Process Studies in China’s Transformation Period”, Tsinghua University, PI