[7][8] Following Meade's theory, Cui was the first scholar to propose a systematic social dividend program in China, including a "Chinese People's Permanent Trust Fund".

In 2003, Cui was invited to the London School of Economics to give the Ralph Miliband Lecture titled "The Bush Doctrine and Neoconservatism: A Chinese Perspective".

[24] In 2014, Cui was invited to give the Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture "Chinese Reform in light of James Meade’s Liberal Socialism" at Oxford University.

He argues that this model could end China's dependence on exports and savings, reduce the growing economic divide between rural and urban areas, and stimulate private business by way of public ownership and state planning.

[30] He gave a public lecture at the India–China Institute of New School for Social Research[31] in April 2014 on "Understanding Xi Jinping’s Grand Reform Strategy"[32] in light of experimental governance, with Charles Sabel as a discussant.

With his current and former students, Cui also runs a free weekly WeChat publication titled "Experimental Governance", with over 80 published issues[33] and more than 2,000 subscribers from academic, policy-research think tanks.