Gu Dengchen serves as General Manager of Public Affairs at Xiaohongshu (RedNote), where he also leads the Technology and Regulatory Policy Research Center. He is a Special Expert at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS). Before joining RedNote, he worked in risk governance at ByteDance and in public affairs at Alibaba Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree in management from Nanjing University and a master’s degree in law from Renmin University of China.

His work focuses on platform governance, geopolitics and technology competition, and global compliance – in particular, how the digital industry interacts with policy in China and internationally. He works closely with legislators, regulators, industry groups and think tanks at home and abroad, and advises on industrial and regulatory policymaking, combining industry insight with a global outlook.

A longtime industry commentator, he has published more than 100 opinion pieces and research articles in leading media outlets and academic journals. He has been interviewed by CCTV and Xinhua News Agency and has contributed to major projects of the National Social Science Fund of China.