Beyond Revenue: Rethinking Taxation in the Digital Political Economy

Jie Zhang was a then-incumbent Senior Research Fellow at the CITIC Institute for Reform and Development and Senior Research Fellow at the Beijing Knowledge Security Engineering Center. He served as a CCTV Financial Commentator and Partner at Beijing Litian Law Firm. A Visiting Professor at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), he holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Mr. Zhang has authored 11 influential books, including Pricing Power, Cyber Hegemony, and Digital Bubble, and published critical analyses in leading academic journals and policy platforms such as Outlook Weekly, Ziguangge (Purple Light Pavilion), and Global Finance. Recognized for his policy-oriented research, he was awarded the Best Policy Research Award by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in recognition of its impact on advancing China’s strategic discourse.

Professor Zhang started his career as a lawyer from 1999 and was one of the main lawyers of the Zhuling incidient and started his own law firm from 2005; he also own and run real estate and private equity investment firms in Beijing from 2007. Aside from his career as a lawyer and investor, Professor Zhang started his teaching career from 2015 at CUPL’s institute on Research on Investment in the Financial Market as a visiting professor.