CAI Jiming, Ph.D. in Economics, is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University. He also serves as the director of the Center for Political Economy. He was a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School, and receives a special government allowance from the State Council. Cai has served as the 11th~14th member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of China Association for Promoting Democracy, and Director of the Central Economic Commission, member of the 9th, 10th and 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a delegate to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), a member of the Financial and Economic Committee of the 13th and 14th NPC, a member of the Expert Committee for the “14th Five-Year” National Development Plan, a member of the National New Urbanization Planning Expert Advisory Committee, a special advisor of the Supreme People's Court, a special supervisor of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. His main research areas include the theory of value and income distribution, theory of land rent, and the land system and urbanization. His academic instruction includes courses on the Principles of Political Economy, Advanced Political Economy, Western Economics, Comparison between Marxist Economics and Western Economics, Economics Research and Writing. His representative works include The Theory of Monopolistic Enough Price (1992), From Distribution according to Work to Distribution According to Contribution of Production Factors (2008), Urbanization in China (2019), From Special Theories of Value to General Theory of Value (2022), From Classical Political Economy to Political Economy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (2023).
Contact information: jmcai@tsinghua.edu.cn
