Research Centers
Against the backdrop of China’s fast economic growth and evident policy change, the Center aims to adopt advanced analytical tools of new political economics or institutional economics, center around anticorruption and clean government construction issues, study China’s economic and political restructuring and contribute ideas to make the country and its people strong and rich. Researchers of the Center come from multiple schools and departments of RUC, including the School of Economics, the School of Finance, the School of International Studies, the School of Public Administration and Policy, and the School of Labor and Human Resources. The Center gathers some senior professors who are well-known in the academic circle and some young doctors who have just cut a figure. Most of the researchers have studied or pursued further education at first-rate overseas universities such as Harvard University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Cambridge and Japan’s Hitotsubashi University. The researchers have rendered quite some academic research achievements. For example, they have published multiple pieces of academic paper on first-rate domestic and overseas journals, such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, the China Quarterly, Social Sciences in China, Economic Research Journal, Management World and CASS Journal of Political Science. Meanwhile, they have generated extensive social influence through policy research reports, press interviews and other public activities.
Director
Prof. Nie Huihua
Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Economics, RUC; Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Harvard University with the major research area being organizational economics. Nie has published dozens of pieces of academic paper on first-rate domestic and overseas journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Social Sciences in China and Economic Research Journal. Nie’s monographs include Government and Enterprise Acting in Concert and Economic Growth: Reflecting on “China Model” and Reputation, Covenant and Organization.
Deputy Director
Associate Prof. Zhang Nan Diyang
Zhang is Assistant Professor of the School of Public Administration, RUC and PhD in Political Science of Chinese University of Hong Kong. With many years of working experience in think tanks, Zhang focuses research on China's reform of administrative system and administrative examination and approval system, local governance and innovation, and Hong Kong's public policy.
Members: Deng Jinting, Han Donglin, Jiang Ting, Liu Ruiming, Liu Xin, Lv Bingyang, Ma Guangrong, Ma Liang, Nie Huihua, You Jing, Song Yang, Tian Ye, Yang Qijing, Yue Ximing, Zhangn Nandiyang and Zhou Ye’an