Jiming Cai is professor at Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University of China. Professor Cai obtained his Ph.D. in Political Economics from the Nankai University, China in 1990, Master of Arts in Political Economics from the Henan University of China in 1985, and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the Hebei Teacher's University in 1982.

Professor Cai's research has been published in the Nankai University Press, Shanxi People's Press, Taiwan Wunan Press, and Nankai Journal. His research interests is in the wide-defined value theory, income distribution, comparative study between Marxism Economics and Western Economics, Socialist Economics, and Industrial and Commercial Rent, etc..

Professor Cai teaches classes in Microeconomics and Marxism Economics. He was a visiting scholar at the State University of New York at Albany from 1993 to 1994.