Name: Gangqiang Yang Position: Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor Email: gqyang@whu.edu.cn Ph.D., Political Economy, Wuhan University (2007-2010) M.A., Population, Resource and Environmental Economics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (2005-2007) B.A., Finance, Inner Mongolia University (2000-2004)

Teaching and Research Fields

●Teaching Courses: Political Economy, Advanced Microeconomics, Contemporary Chinese Economic Reform and Development, Investment, Industrial Economics, 

Sustainable Regional Economic Development, Topics in Regional Economic Development

●Research Areas: Regional and Urban Science, Digital Economy, Agricultural and Rural Economic Theory and Policy

Academic Experiences

●Visiting Scholar, Duke University (2014 - 2015, 2018 - 2019)

●Lujia Young Scholar, Wuhan University (since 2016)

●Deputy Director, Central China Development Research Institute, Wuhan University(since 2017)

●Director, Yangtze River Economic Belt Development Research Center, Wuhan University (since 2016)

Academic Team and Academic Adjuncts

Wuhan University Social Sciences Numerical Intelligence Innovation Research Team (head of Yangtze River Economic Belt High Quality Development Research Team), researcher of Wuhan University Data Intelligence Research Institute, consulting expert of Finance and Economics Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of Hubei Province, expert of Zhejiang Science and Technology Prize, reviewer of World Economy, Quantitative and Technological Economics Research, Financial Innovation, Humanities Financial Innovation, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, International Journal of Production Economics, International Review of Economic and Finance.

Invited Speeches

●China Regional Economy 50 People's Forum, Accelerating Incremental Reform and Optimizing the Environment to Enhance the New Momentum of High-Quality Development of the Central Cities along the Yellow River, November 1, 2020

●China Regional Economy 50 People's Forum, The Impact of Tax Reduction on the Supply of High-Quality Public Goods in the Yangtze River Delta Region and Countermeasures, January 13, 2020

●China Regional Economy 50 People's Forum, Urban Function Diversion and the Governance of Big City Diseases, July 1, 2017

Media article

●Building a Differentiated Land Policy System to Boost Coordinated Regional Development, Guangming Daily (Theory Edition),December 1, 2012.

●Promoting new urbanization of city clusters in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in an orderly manner, Economic Daily (Theory Edition), June 30, 2015.

●Fiscal Incentive Mechanism for Effective Supply of Public Goods Across Regions, Economic Daily (Theory Edition), July 18, 2016.

●Adhering to integrated development and systematically enhancing food security guarantee capacity, Farmers' Daily (Theory), Septemper 22, 2021.

●Ensuring Stability and Security of Modest Food Imports, China Social Science Journal (Economics), August 18, 2021

●Promoting the central region to create a new situation of high-quality development, Shanghai Securities News, November 3, 2023.

●Center Cities and Urban Agglomerations to Drive Territory-wide Development, Hubei Daily (series), February 24, 2022.

●Exploring new paths for high-quality development of county economies, Hubei Daily, August 23, 2024.

Media Interviews

Interviewed by Xinhua News Agency's political film “Decoding Regional Coordinated Development (Episode 4: Urban and Rural Together Toward the Future)”, “Decoding the Rise of Central China (Episode 1: Raising the Spine of Central China)”, as well as featured interviews with Xinhua News Agency, China News Network, and “China Daily”.

Research Results 

Representative Papers

●Customer Digital Transformation, Supplier Carbon Emission Reduction and Carbon Disclosure Pandering, China Industrial Economics, Vol. 8, 2024.

●Carbon Emission Reduction Effect of Digital Economy: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence, China Industrial Economics, Vol. 5, No. 5, 2023.

●Digital transformation and low-carbon technology innovation in manufacturing firms: The mediating role of dynamic capabilities, International Journal of Production Economics,Volume263，2023.

●Digital Transformation, Factor Allocation and Firm Performance, Applied Economics,Volume 56 Issue 50,2024.

●Does environmental information disclosure promote the supply of environmental public goods? Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Volume 93,2022.

Representative Publications

●Research on Effective Supply of Local Public Goods, People's Publishing House, June 2022.

●The Impact of Public Services, Family Structure on Labor Transfer and Public Policy Options, People's Publishing House, March 2017.

●Research Report on High-Quality Development of City Clusters in the Middle Reaches of Yangtze River, (Prof. Li Gang is the chief editor) Editor-in-Chief, Social Science Literature Publishing House, December 2023.

●Report on Synergistic Development of Science and Technology Services and Industries in the City Cluster in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, (Prof. Li Gang is the chief editor) Associate Editor, Social Science literature Publishing House, April 2022.

●Evaluation Report on Synergistic Development of City Clusters in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Editor-in-Chief, Social Science Literature Publishing House, December 2017.

●Report on Synergistic Development of New Urbanization and Industries in the City Cluster in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, Editor-in-Chief, Social Science Literature Publishing House, November 2016.

●Research on Strategies for Promoting the Rise of Central Region in the New Era, China Social Science Press, June 2021.

Representative Projects

●General Project of National Social Science Foundation of China, Research on the Impact and Countermeasures of Tax Reduction on the Government's Supply of High-Quality Public Goods, 2019-2023, Project Leader.

●General Project of National Social Science Foundation of China, Research on Fiscal Incentive Mechanism of Effective Supply of Regional Spillover Public Goods, 2015-2018, Project Leader.

●Project of Youth Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, The Impact of Public Services, Family Structure on Labor Transfer and Public Policy Choices, 2013-2015, Project Leader.

●Major Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China, Research on Benefit Compensation Mechanism for Promoting Regional Coordinated Development in the New Era, 2018-present, sub-theme leader.

●Key Project of Hubei Provincial Social Science Foundation, Constructing Hubei's Regional Development Strategy, Driving the High-Quality Development of the Whole Region with City Clusters, 2020-2021, Project Leader.

●“Hubei Practice of Chinese-style Modernization” Key Project (Major Research Project of Hubei Province, Reform Think Tank Project of Provincial Party Committee, Major Financial and Economics Research Project of Provincial Party Committee), Effectiveness, Problems and Suggestions for Implementation of the Strategy for the Rise of the Central Region, 2024, Project Leader.

●Research on Overall Ideas and Countermeasures for the Rise of Central China, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), 2018-2019, project leader.

Policy Proposals

More than 10 decision-making suggestions written around the development of low-carbon economy, the realization of ecological product value, regional development strategy, effective supply of public goods, safeguarding national food security, safeguarding the capacity of national strategic material reserve, etc., have won the affirmative instructions from the national leaders, provincial and ministerial leaders, etc., and more than 10 suggestions on political management have been adopted by the relevant departments of the Central Government Offices, the State Council Offices, and the Ministry of Education and Culture of the People's Republic of China.