Hong Yinxing

Professor Hong Yinxing was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1950. He obtained his Master Degree of Economics from Nanjing University in 1982 and his Ph.D. of Economics from Renmin University of China in 1987. He became a professor of Economics in 1989 and a distinguished professor of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2014. He had been serving as Chancellor of Nanjing University from 2003 to 2014 and was elected President of the University Affairs Council of Nanjing University in 2014. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Social Science Commission of the Ministry of Education, Chief Consultant to the Marxism Study Project of the Central Committee of CPC, and a representative of both the 17th and 18th National Congresses of CPC. Besides, he serves as Deputy Chief Editor of The Economist and Vice- Chair of the Chinese Society for Research on The Capital.

As an economist with strong interdisciplinary interests in economic operation mechanism, economic development and macro-economy, Professor Hong Yinxing is the author of many publications. He has obtained special awards from the Ministry of Education and the Central Government for his academic achievements. In 1987, he was awarded The Sun Yefang Prize in Economics, and in 1991 the title of “Chinese Doctorate Holder with Outstanding Achievements” by the State Education Commission of China. He visited the United States as Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in 2000 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Law by the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2009. He was also selected as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Economists on China’s Sixty-Year Economic Development” in 2009. 

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Prof. Hong Yinxing    

Email: yinxing@nju.edu.cn