Zhang Zhuoyuan, a renowned economist and a representative of the "robust reformers", graduated from the Economics Department of the Central-South University of Finance and Economics in 1954. He has served as a research intern, assistant researcher, associate researcher and researcher of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (later the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), editor, deputy director and director of the Editorial Department of Economic Research, director and researcher of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics of the Academy of Social Sciences, editor-in-chief of Finance and Trade Economics, doctoral supervisor, director, researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Academy of Social Sciences, and editor-in-chief of Economic Research, etc.