Zhang Bing is Vice President of Nanjing University of Finance and Economics and Director of the Nanjing University–Jiangsu Provincial Department of Environmental Protection Center for Environmental Management and Policy Research. He is primarily engaged in teaching and research on environmental management and policy analysis, as well as environmental economics. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Environmental Management, Chinese Journal of Environmental Management, and Journal of Environmental Economics; as Associate Editor of Environmental Management and Environmental and Resource Economics; and as Deputy Director of the Environmental Economics Branch of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Deputy Director of the Ecological and Environmental Systems Engineering Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Systems Engineering, and Vice Chairman of the Energy Economics and Management Research Division of the Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics.
Professor Zhang has long been engaged in research on environmental management and policy analysis, and environmental economics. He has led projects including the NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar Fund, NSFC International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Program, National Key R&D Program of China, Major Water Pollution Control Program (Water Special Project), and UNEP projects. He has published extensively in journals such as Nature Sustainability, PNAS, American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Environmental Science & Technology. He has participated in the formulation of China's pollution discharge permit, emission trading, and environmental information disclosure policies. His research has received first and second prizes of the Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, as well as the Zhang Peigang Outstanding Achievement Award in Development Economics.
1) Buntaine, M.T.; Greenstone, M.; He, G.J.; Liu, M.D.; Wang, S.D.; Zhang, B. Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China. American Economic Review, 2024, 114: 815-850.
2) He, G.J.; Wang, S.D.; Zhang, B. Watering down environmental regulation in China, The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2020, 135(4): 2135-2185.
3) Zhang, B.; Zhao, D.X. Emission Leakage and the Effectiveness of Regional Environmental Regulation in China. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 121: 102869.
4) Wang, C.H.; Wu, J.J.; Zhang, B. Environmental regulation, emissions and productivity: Evidence from Chinese COD-emitting manufacturers. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 92: 54-73.
5) Xiao, Y.L.;Liu, M. D.;Liu, M.M.;Zhang, B. Local information, mismatch, and the cost of randomization in regulatory enforcement. Journal of Public Economics, 2026, 257: 105616.
6) Zhang, B.; Chen, X.L.; Guo, H.X.Does central supervision enhance local environmental enforcement? Quasi-experimental evidence from China. Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164: 70-90.
7) Yu, Y.; Wang, J.; Chen, Q.; Urpelainen, J.; Ding, Q.; Liu, S.; Zhang, B. Decarbonization efforts hindered by China’s slow progress on electricity market reforms. Nature Sustainability, 2023, 6, 1006–1015.
8) Liu, B.B.; Gu, W.Y.; Yang, Y.; Wang, F.; Lu, B.F.; Zhang, B.; Bi, J. Promoting potato as staple food can reduce the carbon–land–water impacts of crops in China.Nature Food, 2021, 2:570–577.
9) Liu, M.; Buntaine, M.T.; Anderson, S.E.; Zhang, B. Transparency by Chinese cities reduces pollution violations and improves air quality. PNAS, 2025, 122(14): e2406761122.
10) Slough, T.; Rubenson, D.; Levy, R.; Zhang, B. Adoption of community monitoring improves common pool resource management across contexts. PNAS, 2021, 118 (29): e2015367118.
11) Buntaine, M.; Zhang, B.; Hunnicutt, P. Citizen Monitoring of Waterways Decreases Pollution in China by Supporting Government Action and Oversight. PNAS, 2021, 118 (29): e2015175118.
12) Liu, M.D.; Tan, R.P.; Zhang, B. The Costs of "Blue Sky": Environmental Regulation, Technology Upgrading, and Labor Demand in China. Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150(4): 102610.
13) He, G.J.; Xie, Y.; Zhang, B. Expressways, GDP, and the Environment: The case of China. Journal of Development Economics. 2020, 145: 102458.
14) Tu, M.; Zhang, B.; Xu, J.H.; Lu, F.W. Mass media, information and demand for environmental quality: Evidence from the "Under the Dome". Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143: 102402.
15) Anderson, S.; Buntaine, M.T.; Liu, M.D.; Zhang, B. Non-Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National-Scale Field Experiment in China, American Journal of Political Science. 2019, 63(3): 626-643.
16) Tang, Y.; Liu, M.D.; Xia, F.; Zhang, B. Informal Regulation by Nongovernmental Organizations Enhances Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Controlled Trial in China. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 43(1): 234-257.
17) Sun, J.X.; Wang, F.; Yin, H.T.; Zhang, B. Money Talks: The Environmental Impact of China's Green Credit Policy. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38(3): 653-680.
18) He, P.; Zhang, B. Environmental tax, polluting firms' strategies and effectiveness: Evidence from China. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2018, 37(3): 493-520.
19) Yang, J.; Zhang, B. Air pollution and healthcare expenditure: Implication for the benefit of air pollution control in China. Environment International, 2018, 120: 443-455.
1. Research on Environmental Supervision System Based on Big Data, NSFC International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Project, 2022–2026
2. Optimization Technologies for the Four Major Structural Adjustments to Achieve Synergistic Reduction of Pollution and Carbon Emissions, National Key R&D Program of China, 2023–2025
3. Environmental Risk Management, NSFC Innovative Research Group (Core Member), 2020–2024
4. Environmental Management and Policy Analysis, NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar Fund (Project Leader), 2013–2019
5. Integration and Innovation of Water Environmental Economic Policies for Industrial Source Pollution Control, Major Water Pollution Control Program (Water Special Project), 2018–2020
6. Multi-scale Cost-Effectiveness Modeling for Air Pollution Prevention and Control: A Demonstration Study, National Key R&D Program of China, 2016–2019
7. Innovative Mechanisms for Regional Air Quality Management, NSFC Key Project, 2015–2019
8. Environmental Management and Policy Analysis, NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund, 2014–2016
9. Impact of Policy Coordination on Behavior of Emission Trading Participants and Policy Performance, NSFC General Project, 2013–2016
10. Environmental and Climate Benefit of China's Investment on Intermittent Renewable Energy, Energy Foundation, 2021–2022
11. Citizen Monitoring of Urban Waterways in Jiangsu, China, EGAP, 2017–2019
12. Jiangsu Green Development Evaluation, UNEP, 2017–2019
1. Deputy Director, Environmental Economics Branch, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences
2. Deputy Director, Ecological and Environmental Systems Engineering Professional Committee, Chinese Society of Systems Engineering
3. Vice Chairman, Energy Economics and Management Research Division, Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics
4. Adjunct Researcher, Environmental Planning and Policy Simulation Laboratory, Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Environmental Protection
5. Adjunct Researcher, Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth (Hong Kong), Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
6. Adjunct Researcher, Risk Governance Center, Tsinghua University
7. Editorial Board Member: Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Economics, Chinese Journal of Environmental Management
8. Associate Editor: Environmental Management, Environmental and Resource Economics
1. Second Prize of the 18th Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences for "The costs of 'blue sky': Environmental regulation, technology upgrading, and labor demand in China" (2025)
2. Second Prize of the 9th Outstanding Achievement Award in Humanities and Social Sciences of Higher Education Institutions for "Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China" (2024)
3. Management Science Award (9th China Management Science Society) for "Research on Mechanism Analysis and Policy Design Optimization of Environmental Policy" (2024)
4. Second Prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment for "Key Technologies and Application of Paid Use and Trading of Water Pollutant Emission Rights" (2022)
5. Zhang Peigang Outstanding Achievement Award in Development Economics for "Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China" (2022)
6. Third Prize of the 16th Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences for "Does central supervision enhance local environmental enforcement? Quasi-experimental evidence from China" (2020)
7. First Prize of Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Environmental Protection for "Research on Emission Trading Technology and Implementation for Sulfur Dioxide in the Power Industry" (2012)
8. Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education for "Development and Application of Material Integration and Optimal Regulation Technology in Industrial Parks" (2009)
9. Young Scholar Award of the Zijin Quanxing Environmental Fund, Nanjing University (2018)
10. Best Policy Impacts Award, EfD, for "Corporate environmental information disclosure and public participation in China" (2025)
11. The Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award for "Non‐Governmental Monitoring of Local Governments Increases Compliance with Central Mandates: A National‐Scale Field Experiment in China" (2020)
Mailing Address: No. 3 Wenyuan Road, Xianlin University City, Nanjing, 210023, China
Postal Code: 210023
Affiliation: Nanjing University of Finance and Economics / Nanjing University
Email: zhangb@nju.edu.cn
