Zhang Changhong

Zhang Changhong (; born March 1958) is a Chinese entrepreneur and business executive, best known as the founder of Shanghai DZH, a Shanghai-based financial data and software company formerly known as Shanghai Great Wisdom (上海大智慧股份有限公司). He built DZH into one of China's leading domestic providers of real-time market data and trading software, positioned as a local competitor to international vendors such as Reuters and Bloomberg.

Early life and education Zhang was born in March 1958 in Chengdu, Sichuan. He studied at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) in Xi'an, where university records describe him as a 1984-cohort student who graduated in 1987 with a master's degree in philosophy. After completing his studies, Zhang worked as a teacher at Nanjing Aeronautical School, a predecessor institution of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, before moving into the securities-services industry.

Career Early career and securities consulting By the 1990s Zhang was working in the securities-services sector as general manager of the Shanghai Pudong branch of Beijing Wanguo Enterprise Service Co. and later as chairman and general manager of Shanghai Wanguo Stock Appraisal & Consulting, a securities-consulting firm.

In the early 2000s, Zhang put forward a "full circulation" (全流通) plan to resolve the split-share structure, proposing mechanisms under which non-tradable state and corporate shares could gradually obtain trading rights while protecting the market value of existing tradable shares.

Personal life He is married and lives in Shanghai, China.