Zichen is Research Fellow and Director for International Communications at the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading nongovernmental thinktank in Beijing. Before joining CCG in October 2022, he worked, in China and Europe, for over 11 years at Xinhua News Agency, China's state news agency. He is a recipient of many internal awards from Xinhua and the Chinese authorities. While at Xinhua, he founded Pekingnology, a China newsletter, as a personal project that he now continues to edit at CCG. Pekingnology, by June 2024, had 14,000 subscribers and amassed over 1.5 million views in the year to date. He also edits The East is Read, another China newsletter with 10,000 subscribers, at CCG. The newsletters translate, contextualize, interpret, and summarize Chinese leaders' speeches, China's policy documents, and substantive and technical policy discussions mostly from within China. His work is widely followed and recognized in China-focused diplomatic, academic, and media circles in the West.