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I am a Development Economist and a Political Economy scholar working on the interdisciplinary research among Development Economics, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics, International Trade, Regional Studies, Public Policy, Structural Transformation of Developing Countries and the Chinese Economy. Here are my links to my research profiles:
   
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Background

I am an Assistant Professor at Department of Applied Economics at School of Management at Fudan University where one of the leading business schools in Asia and one of the best business schools in China locates at. At School of Management at Fudan, I conduct the interdisciplinary research related to economics, management studies, corporate finance, innovation studies, marketing science,regional studies and operational research with reference to global supply chains as well as structural transformation approach to the growth of developing countries by using various of mathematical methods. I also concurrently teach industrial economics, MBA, macroeconomics and other related courses including industrial development strategies in both Chinese and English for both undergraduate and postgraduate level students. In meanwhile, At School of Management at Fudan, I also fulfill the role of being a teaching professor for the Fudan High Tech Industry Entrepreneur Camp. At the Camp, I teach various practical and applied courses with strong business and policy implications to the growth and technological innovation of High Tech Camp members' companies.

I am also affiliated as a research associate of the world leading social science and structural transformation approach to development economics research institute Harvard Growth Lab  led by the world leading development economist Professor Ricardo Hausmann at Center for international Development (CID) under the affiliation of Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. I was also the visiting post-doctoral research fellow under the supervision of Professor Ricardo Hausmann  and Dr Frank Neffke. at Harvard growth lab from Jan. 2020 to July. 2020. Since 2019, I began to be affiliated as a research fellow at Research Institute of Chinese Economy (RICE) led by leading Chinese Economy Expert  Professor Jun Zhang at Fudan University. In meanwhile, I also hold the adjunct research fellowship at Fudan-Pingan Research Institute for Macroeconomy to conduct the first-tiered macro economic policy research and relevant policy consulting projects for both public and private sectors. 

I am heavily involved in a number of policy research projects related to China's SOE reforms. Given my expertise on China's SOE reforms, I am also affiliated as a research fellow at China's leading research institute on SOE reforms-China Center for Public Sector Economy Research at Jilin University.

I obtained my PhD in Development Economics at University of London (SOAS). My Supervisors at University of London (SOAS) are Professor Dic Lo, Professor Pasquale Scaramozzino and Professor Mushtaq Khan. I hold a BSc in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and MSc in Economics and Management from LSE under the supervision of Professor John Sutton and Professor Luis Garicano. I won the department prize for the bext examination performance in Managerial Economics and achieved the best examination performance in Quantitative Methods in Mathematics during my undergraduate studies at LSE. 

At SOAS University of London, I was the Graduate Teaching Associate who was responsible for tutoring total 7 undergraduate and postgraduate courses during my PhD studies including Managerial Economics, Econometric Principles and Data Analysis, Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis, Corporate Finance, Financial Strategy, Applied Econometrics and Introduction to Mathematical Economics. 

I was awarded the 2019 National Scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the outstanding self-funded oversea Chinese PhD students(2019 年中国教育部留基委国家优秀自费留学生奖学金获得者). I am among the 47 Chinese PhD students and the only awardee from the field of Economics in UK who received this national scholarship. I was also awarded the Department PhD Research Fund from Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. My co-authored paper 'Unlocking the Myth of Asset Expansion in China's Large SOEs-Theory and Evidence' was awarded The Best Paper Award of the 21th  China's SOE Sector Development Forum' in 2021. In the field of international trade, my co-authored paper 'Towards a dynamic model of industry upgrading with Global Value Chains' was awarded the Third Prize for The 22th An Zijie International Trade Excellent Research Paper' which is one of the  most prestigous prizes in the field of International Trade in Chinese Academy of Economics. 

In my spare time, l am passionate about doing sports including playing table tennis, playing football, jogging, taking a walk and playing badminton. In addition, learning varieties of mathematical tools mainly including the cybernetics, real analysis, calculus of variation, optimal control theory, chaotic theory, operational research, network science, graph theory and reading the books on Contemporary Chinese History (中国近代史), Chinese Intellectual Thought History (中国知识分子思想史) as well as Bibliographies of Chinese Scientists (中国科学家传记)mainly including mathematicians and physicists are also my another two big life hobbies. My most respected Chinese Scholars are:  Wei-zang Chien (钱伟长, 中国近代力学之父),YinKo Chen  (陈寅恪,中国著名历史学家及古典文学家), Loo-keng Hua (华罗庚,中国近代数学奠基人) and Zhun Gu (顾准,中国近代会计学先驱及著名思想家)

My favorite 2 quotations from  Loo-keng Hua  and Wei-zang Chien  are: 

在寻求真理的长征中,唯有学习,不断地学习,勤奋地学习,有创造性地学习,才能越重山、跨峻岭。-华罗庚/In the pro-longed course of seeking the truth, only learning,  constantly learning, diligent in our study, creative learning, to the mountains cross the mountains-Loo-keng Hua. 

教,关键在于“授之以渔”;教书,关键在于教给学生一种学会思考问题的方法。-钱伟长/The key element of teaching is how to equip the students with the skills of catching the fish instead of directly giving them fish; That is, the ways in which they could adopt to think about the problems in the most appropriate way.  

 

个人座右铭:

1.对于一个主攻区域发展、结构变迁发展经济学以及产业发展研究的科研人员来说,做学术研究的初衷应该不仅仅为了自己智力上的一种游戏体验或内心的一种好奇心的满足,而是能把自己的学术研究,学术共同体的推进及参与和广泛的产学研一体化合作服务于企业的发展,整个社会的福利增加与国家进一步的富强,而且这种基本的学术责任感与学术关怀是对任何一个国家做发展研究的科研人员来说,都应是不断追求的目标。

2. 任何社会科学理论上的原创性贡献都是对现实中或文献里最新的现象并从中引申出的重要的研究问题,做出最一般意义上的规律性总结和严谨性的方法工具上的分析。也因此,纵观各国社科研究的发展史, 大多数真正原创性的工作和经得起时间考验的学术研究一开始其实并不是发表在最主流或最顶级的期刊上,即使是那些发在最顶级期刊上的原创性社科理论研究,一开始也可能只有十分局限的学术影响力。因为最主流的期刊因为其引领现有研究范式的风向标的作用,必须是既有研究范式的综合性体现,这也是非常正常和能够理解的。从这个方面来说,要做范式转换(paradigm shift)的研究,必须要多发表,增加学术文章的读者群,但更重要的是需要思考什么是现实中最重要的现象或文献里最重要的问题,具体用什么研究工具或方法去解释这些重要议题或现象,其实是次要的。有了这个保障,无论是发表在顶级或最主流的期刊还是发在普通的期刊上,只要是一篇问出重要研究问题或抓住现实中重要现象的文章,就一定有它自身在文献中的地位与分量。

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