Leadership
Dr. Cao Zhongxiong is the Assistant President of the China Development Institute and the Director of the Digital Strategy and Economic Research Center. He is also the expert in the economic group of Shenzhen Pioneering Demonstration Zone for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, the consulting expert to the Legislative Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress, and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Association of Applied Economics.
Dr. Cao’s research focuses on the digital economy. He has led and participated in over one hundred consulting and planning projects for Chinese governments at all levels, as well as Alibaba, Tencent, and other leading digital economy companies. His published research report includes China's Digital Road, Platform Economy Health Index, Shared Innovation-Creating the World's Top Science and Technology Innovation Bay Area, etc.
Zheng Yujie is the Assistant President of China Development Institute. He is also expert of the Science and Technology Group of Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zone, member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC Luohu District, Shenzhen, and President of the Luohu District Intellectual Association. He has been engaging in government decision-making research in the fields of urban economic development and strategic emerging industry planning throughout his career. He has presided over or participated in over a dozen of development planning research projects commissioned by national ministries and local governments, including "Research on Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: A World-class Science and Technology Innovation", "Policy Research on Shenzhen's Construction of an International Science and Technology Industry Innovation Center". His published books include "Dual Circulation: New Development Pattern for the 14th Five Year Plan Period".
Dr Liu Guohong is Vice President at China Development Institute. He is also the Director of the China Token Digital Economic Research Center. His research foci include finance, regional economics, industrial planning, innovation-driven growth, and business strategy. Dr Liu is the co-author of Public Welfare, Finance and Goodness Economy and is the editor in chief of China’s Financial Center Index 12 and China’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation Finance Index Report. His academic works have been published in various key academic journals. Dr Liu is also a registered consulting engineer. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Nankai University, China.
Dr. Qu Jian is Vice President of China Development Institute (CDI). He serves as an expert of the MOFCOM and a SEZ consultant of ADB.
He specializes in industrial economics, regional economics, special economic zones and industrial parks. He played leading roles in more than 100 research projects for policy makers and businesses from home and abroad. He provided consultation on master planning, industrial planning, spatial planning, investment feasibilities and legislation proposals for special economic zones and industrial parks in many countries, including Ethiopia, India, Republic of Congo, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from Nankai University.
Dr. Guo Wanda is Executive Vice President of China Development Institute (CDI) and Vice Chairman of Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macao Studies.
He specializes in macroeconomics, economic and social development of Hong Kong and Macao, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation, low-carbon economy, urbanization and industrial economics. He played leading roles in research projects commissioned by Chinese central and local governments. His published books include Rethinking China’s Urbanization and Metropolis, Migrant Workers’ Early Retirement: Theory, Evidence and Policy, Low Carbon City: A Non-Regret Opinion, and Perspective on the Development between Shenzhen & Hong Kong and the integration of the PRD Region, etc. He was awarded Chevening Fellowship by the British government in 2008.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from Nankai University.
Prof. Fan Gang is President of China Development Institute (CDI) in Shenzhen, China, Director of National Economic Research Institute (NERI) and Chairman of China Reform Foundation in Beijing, China. He is Professor of Economics at Peking University (PHBS) and at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is a guest professor at a number of universities and graduate schools.
He served as an independent member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s Central Bank from 2006 to 2010, and again since 2015, and is an advisor to various departments of the Chinese central government and provincial governments. He served as an economic consultant to various international organizations and played leading roles in research projects commissioned by the World Bank, ADB, UNDP, OECD, etc.
His publications include over 100 academic papers published in Chinese and English academic journals and 12 books on macroeconomics and economics of transition. He received Doctor Honoris Causa degrees (Honorary Doctorates) from the University of Auvergne (France) and the Royal Roads University (Canada), in 2004 and 2011 respectively, and was listed as one of the “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” jointly by Foreign Policy and Prospect in 2005 and 2008 consecutively, and one of “100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy in 2010.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988.
