She received her bachelor’s degree from China University of Political Science and Law and subsequently pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, where she obtained both a Master’s degree and a PhD in Social Policy. During her studies in the UK, she participated in several major nationally funded research projects as well as research and innovation projects under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
She is currently an Assistant Research Fellow in the Division of Social and Cultural Studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Her main research interests include modernization and development in Latin America, digital poverty reduction, comparative policy studies, cross-cultural communication, and sustainable development.
In 2023, she participated in the joint research project Mutual Learning for Development between China and Argentina: Digital Poverty Reduction Policies, Practices and Prospects, jointly funded by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Argentina’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. In 2025, she was a visiting scholar at the School of Economics, National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), where she conducted thematic and field research on Colombia’s national development, digital transformation, poverty governance, and China–Colombia cooperation.
She is also actively engaged in academic peer review for both domestic and international journals. She has served as a reviewer for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, an interdisciplinary social sciences and humanities journal published by Nature Portfolio; World Development, a leading international journal in development studies; Housing Policy Debate, a prominent journal in housing and public policy; and Journal of Latin American Studies, China’s only comprehensive academic journal dedicated specifically to Latin American studies, among others.
Selected Publications
He, B., 2023. “Will We Realize the Decentralization of Affordable Housing Provision? Critical Reflections on English and Chinese Land Governance for Housing Contexts.” Housing Policy Debate, 33(3), pp.724-745.
Black, D., Wei, T., Eaton, E., Hunt, A., Carey, J., Schmutz, U., He, B. and Roderick, I., 2023. “Testing food waste reduction targets: Integrating transition scenarios with macro-valuation in an urban living lab”. Sustainability, 15(7), p.6004.
He, Bingzi., 2024.“The Role of Green Growth and Sustainable Welfare in Promoting Sustainable Development in Developing Countries: Evidence from Chile” [in Chinese]. Journal of Latin American Studies, 46(1), pp. 123–146.
He, B., 2024. Antecedentes de Investigación y el Nivel de Digitalización en China. in Chávez Molina, E. and Guo, D., ed. Reducción de la Pobreza Mediante la Tecnología Digital: Reflexiones Sobre Políticas, Prácticas y Perspectivas en China y Argentina, Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani.
He, Bingzi. “Mutual Learning between China and Latin America in Digital Civilization: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Digital Government” [in Chinese]. In Annual Report on Latin America and the Caribbean 2023–2024, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, July 2025.
Mesa-Lago, C. and He, B., 2025. Comparing Socialist Approaches: Economics and Social Security in Cuba, China, and Vietnam. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh.
He, B., 2026. “Does Digital Development Really Deliver on the Promise of Poverty Reduction? Evidence From Argentina”. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 45(1), p.e70045.