NADS Master Lecture--Regional Competition Model and Land System Reform in China

As the first batches of "China Top Think Tanks" pilot units, the National Academy of Development and Strategy of Renmin University of China committed to highlighting national fate and assuming the mission of providing suggestions to decision-makers and enlightening people. As the new type of think tank with chinese characteristics, NADS was built with the efforts of entire university and gathered many famous teachers and acdemic elites. "NADS Master Lecture" will take you to communicate with RUC famous professors and step into the hall of thought.

Topic: Regional Competition Model and Land System Reform in China

Reporter: TAO Ran, Deputy Dean of Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance and Research Fellow of NADS

Moderator: NIE Huihua, Deputy Dean of NADS and Deputy Director of Scientific Research Division, RUC

Commentator: XIA Fangzhou, Lecturer of Land Management Department of School of Public Administration and Policy

Time: 18:00-20:00 21st May, 2018

Venue: Room 228, Guoxue Hall, RUC

Reporter's Introduction:

TAO Ran,  Professor of School of Economics, Renmin University of China, Associate Dean of Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, and Research Fellow of National Development Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and has conducted postdoctoral research at the China Research Center at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. His research in recent years has focused on areas such as high-growth political economy in China's economic transition, land and household registration reform in the process of urbanization in China, rural development, local governance, and public finance. He has hosted or is currently chairing two key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and is leading a major project of the National Social Science Fund to study issues of land reform, household registration reform and urban development in the process of urbanization in China. He has published more than 50 English papers in well-known international journals in recent years, and more than 50 papers have been published in core journals of Chinese social sciences. At present, his research on China's growth model, China's new urbanization, regional economic development, China's economic and social transformation, rural grassroots governance, and government public finance have a major impact on academic circles at home and abroad, the central government, and local governments at all levels.