[9] Zhang also acquired large stakes in New York City's Park Avenue Plaza and General Motors Building,[10][11][12][2] and launching the SOHO 3Q shared office space sector for this purpose in February 2015.

[16] Zhang and Pan founded the SOHO China Foundation in 2005 as a philanthropic organization to engage in education focused initiatives to alleviate poverty.

In 2014, the Foundation launched the SOHO China Scholarships to provide financial aid to Chinese undergraduate students at leading international universities.

[17] The SOHO China Scholarships support approximately 50 Chinese students pursuing undergraduate degrees at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Chicago.

[20] She returned to Hong Kong to work, but in 1993, her unit at Barings was acquired by Goldman Sachs, and Zhang was transferred to New York City,[20] where she helped bring privatized Chinese factories to the public stock exchange.

"[21] In 2011, Zhang began to transition from merely developing and selling properties to buying and leasing space, and branched out of China by acquiring a $600 million stake in New York City's Park Avenue Plaza,[2] followed by participation in a group acquiring a 40 percent stake in the General Motors Building in midtown Manhattan in 2014,[12][2] for a reported $1.4 billion.

[12] The SOHO China Scholarships support approximately 50 Chinese students pursuing undergraduate degrees at partner universities.

[29] SOHO China began a transition from a business model of building and selling properties to one of buying and leasing them,[9] with Zhang participating in the February 2015 launch of the SOHO 3Q shared office space sector, leasing shared space to companies in cities in China.

[2] In 2002, she was awarded a special prize at the 8th la Biennale di Venezia for Commune by the Great Wall, a private collection of architecture, now a hotel.

[34] Zhang made a cameo appearance, as a representative of a Chinese investor, in the 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.