Name: Liu Zhen

Date of birth: August 1976

Hometown: Jiangyin, Jiangsu

Title: Tenured Professor, Doctoral Supervisor

Party Affiliation: Member of the Communist Party of China

Courses Taught: Basic Principles of Marxism; Political Economy; Comparative Political Economy: The Relationship between Government and Market

Contact: liuzhen@tsinghua.edu.cn

Educational Background

September 1994-July 1999 Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Bachelor of Engineering

September 2001-July 2008, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Master and Doctor of Theoretical Economics

Work Experience

August 1999- August 2001, served as a faculty member and political counselor at the Youth League Committee of Tsinghua University.

June 2008- December 2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Economics and Management's Applied Economics Program.

January 2011–November 2012 Lecturer, School of Marxism, Tsinghua University

December 2012- July 2019, Associate Professor, School of Marxism, Tsinghua University.

July 2019- June 2023, served as a tenured associate professor at the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University.

June 2023- present: Full Professor, School of Marxism, Tsinghua University

Research Fields

The main research direction is the political economy of socialism with Chinese characteristics, focusing on the political economy of the digital economy and the reform of state-owned assets and enterprises.