Faculty

Monographs

· Shantong Li, Yuning Gao, Jianwu He, Domestic Regional Division of Labor and Market Integration under the Perspective of Global Value Chain，Beijing: Economic Science Press, 2025（ISBN 9787521873498）.

· Bo Meng and Yuning Gao, Global Value Chain, China’s Economic Growth and Carbon Emission, Beijing: Social Science Literature Press, 2017. (ISBN 9787520107365)

· Yuning Gao and D’Maris Coffman, Renminbi Internationalization: Economic Forecasting and Policy Scenarios Analysis, Searching Finance, 2014. (ISBN 978-1-907720-80-2).

· Yuning Gao, China as the Workshop of the World: An Analysis at the National and Industrial Level of China in the International Division of Labour, London and New York: Routledge, 2012. (ISBN 978-0-415-60405-5 Hardback 978-1-138-81685-5 Paperback).

Journal Articles

In English

· Yuning Gao, Tao Zhang, Shantong Li, David Cleary,  Accounting for commodity carbon footprints at the sub-national level: A case study of soybean exports from Brazil to China, World Development Sustainability, 2025, Vol.7, 100238, 1-10.

· Bo Meng, Yuning Gao, Tao Zhang, Jiabai Ye, Yaxiong Zhang, The US–China relations and the impact of the US–China trade war: Global value chains analyses, Economic Analysis and Policy, 2025, Vol. 87, 1896-1908.

· Wei Ma, Zhaolei Liu, Yuning Gao, The Role of Air Pollution in Shaping Urban Cultural Consumption: An Empirical Investigation of PM10 and Movie Consumption in Chinese Cities, Economies, Vol.13, Iss. 7, 198, 1-26.

· Wenyin Cheng, Shenglong Liu, Bo Meng, Yuning Gao, Impact of countercyclical fiscal policy on total factor productivity in state-owned enterprises: A corporate governance perspective, Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 85, 1916-1930.

· Meng Li, Bo Meng, Yong Geng, Fan Tong, Yuning Gao, Norihiko Yamano, Sunghun Lim, Joaquim Guilhoto, Kimiko Uno, Xiaohong Chen, Inequitable distribution of risks associated with occupational heat exposure driven by trade, Nature Communications, 2025, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 537.

· Yingbo Li, Zihan Wang, Ziqiu Lin, Yuning Gao, Revisiting regional governance and regional development: Measurements, linkages and coupling effect, World Development, January 2025, Volume 185, 106816, 1-13.

· Wenyin Cheng, Bo Meng, Yuning Gao, David Dollar, The paradox of decelerated technology importation and accelerated innovation in China: Insights from national technology development zones, China Economic Review, 2024, 88, 102303, 1-27.

· Tiange Qi, Yuning Gao, Yongjian Huang, A Lucas island model to analyse labour movement choice between cities based on personal characteristics, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2024, 11:1138, 1-10.

· Gabriele Suder, Bo Meng, Yuning Gao, Critical perspectives on GVC theory: uncovering GVC resilience through non-lead power, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 2024, Vol.20, Iss. 4, 487-516.

· Yuning Gao, Anqi Yu, Jiatong Jiang, Jiansuo Pei, Will global value chain participation reduce environmental emissions? Evidence from Chinese firm-level data, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2024, Vol. 69, Pages 512-526.

· Hao Ren, Lingyi Zhou and Yuning Gao, Policy Tourism and Economic Collaboration Among Local Governments: A Nonparametric Matching Model, Public Performance & Management Review, 2024, Vol. 47, Iss. 2, Pages 476-504.

· Yuning Gao, Meng Li, Anqi Yu, Hongyun Pan, Digital global value chains: An analysis from the perspective of a value-added decomposition，Journal of Digital Economy, 2024, Vol.2, 162-174.

· Yang Han, Ying Tian, Liangliang Yu, Yuning Gao, “Economic system forecasting based on temporal fusion transformers: Multi-dimensional evaluation and cross-model comparative analysis”, Neurocomputing, 2023, Volume 552, 126500.

· Quanrun Chen, Yuning Gao, Chen Pan, Dingyi XU, Kun Cai, Dabo Guan, Qi He, Shantong Li, Wanqi Liu, Bo Meng, Zhi Wang, Yang Wang, Xianchun Xu, Peihao Yang, Meichen Zhang, and Yuanqi Zhou,“An interprovincial input–output database distinguishing firm ownership in China from 1997 to 2017”, Scientific Data, 2023, Issue 10, No. 293, 1-25.

· Yuning Gao, Bo Meng, Gabriele Suder, Jiabai Ye and Yongping Sune, Making global value chains visible: Transnational corporations versus domestically owned firms, Transnational Corporations, Vol. 30, 2023, Number 1, 1-48.

· Meng Li, Yuning Gao, Bo Meng, Jing Meng, Tracing embodied energy use through global value chains: Channel decomposition and analysis of influential factors, Ecological Economics, 2023, 208, 107766, 1-15.

· Bo Meng, Yu Liu, Yuning Gao, Meng Li, Zhi Wang, Jinjun Xue, Robbie Andrew, Kuishuang Feng, Ye Qi, Yongping Sun, Huaping Sun Keying Wang, Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries, One Earth, 2023, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, 17 February 2023, Pages 167-181.

· Meng Li, Bo Meng, Yuning Gao, Joaquim J.M. Guilhoto, Keying Wang, Yong Geng, Material footprints in global value chains with consideration of multinational enterprises, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2023, Vol. 190, 106828, 1-22.

· Ying Chen, Yuning Gao, Comparative analysis of digital trade development strategies and governance approaches，Journal of Digital Economy, 2022，Vol.1, 227-238.

· Wenyin Cheng, Qingchun Wang, Xin Ouyang, Yize Xie, Yuning Gao, Anqi Yu, Effect of Economic and Technological Development Zones on Green Innovation: Learning by Importing Perspective, Journal of Global Information Management, 2022, Vol. 30, Iss. 6, 1-16.

· Xia Pan, Wenyin Cheng, Yuning Gao, The impact of privatization of state-owned enterprises on innovation in China: A tale of privatization degree, Technovation, 2022, Vol. 118, 102587, 1-13.

· Bo Meng, Yuning Gao, Jiabai Ye, Meichen Zhang, Yuqing Xing, Trade in factor income and the US-China trade balance, China Economic Review, 2022, Vol.73, 101792, 1-18.

· Anqi Yu, Guankun Liu, Yuning Gao, Intergenerational Occupational Mobility, Labor Migration and Sustained Demographic Dividends, Sustainability, 2022, Vol.14, No. 5, 3110, 1-21.

· Quanrun Chen, Yuning Gao, Jiansuo Pei, Gaaitzen de Vries, Fei Wang, China’s domestic production networks, China Economic Review, 2022, Vol.72, 101767, 1-25.

· Xi Li, Zhigang Ouyang, Qiong Zhang, Wenlong Shang, Liqiao Huang, Yi Wu, Yuning Gao，Evaluating food supply chain emissions from Japanese household consumption，Applied Energy, Volume 306, Part B, 15 January 2022, 118080, 1-11.

· Yuning Gao, Gengyun Cheng, Yingjun Ma, An analysis of the comprehensive efficiency and its determinants of China's National Champions: Competition Neutrality vs. Ownership Neutrality, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021, Vol. 59, 320-329

· Jingwen Huo, Jing Meng, Zengkai Zhang, Yuning Gao, Heran Zheng, D'Maris Coffman, Jinjun Xue, Yuan Li, Dabo Guan, Drivers of fluctuating embodied carbon emissions in international services trade, One Earth, 2021, Vol. 4, Iss. 9, 1322-1332

· Xia Pan, Wenyin Cheng, Yuning Gao, Tomas Balezentis, Zhiyang Shen, Is environmental regulation effective in promoting the quantity and quality of green innovation?, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021, Vol.28, 6232–6241

· Larry Li, Adela McMurray, Xiaomeng Li, Yuning Gao, Jinjun Xue, The diminishing marginal effect of R&D input and carbon emission mitigation, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021, Vol. 282, 124423, 1-14

· Yuning Gao, Meichen Zhang, Jinghai Zheng, Accounting and determinants analysis of China's provincial total factor productivity considering carbon emissions, China Economic Review, 2021, Vol.65,101576, 1-24

· Meng Li, Yuning Gao, Bo Meng, Zhusong Yang, Managing the mitigation: Analysis of the effectiveness of target-based policies on China’s provincial carbon emission and transfer, Energy Policy, 2021, Vol.151, 112189, 1-15

· Yuning Gao, Meng Li, Jinjun Xue, Yu Liu, Evaluation of effectiveness of China's carbon emissions trading scheme in carbon mitigation, Energy Economics, 2020, Vol.90, 104872, 1-15

· Xia Pan, Yuning Gao, Dong Guo, Wenyin Cheng, Does Higher Education Promote Firm Innovation in China?, Sustainability, 2020, Vol. 12, No.18, 7326.

· Meng Li, Yuning Gao, Shenglong Liu, “China’s Energy Intensity Change in 1997-2015: Non-vertical adjusted Structural Decomposition Analysis Based on Input-Output Tables”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, Vol. 53, pp. 222-236

· Yuning Gao, Meng Li, Yufeng Lu, “What Can Be Learned from Billions of Invoices? The Construction and Application of China’s Multiregional Input-Output Table Based on Big Data from the Value-Added Tax”, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, 2020, Vol.56, pp. 1925-1941.

· Yuning Gao, Meichen Zhang, Xinran Liu, “Study on the Efficiency Measurements and Influence Factors of Development Financial Institutions”, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, 2020, Vol.56, No.8, pp.1765-1780

· Xintong Zhao, Miao Yu, Yuning Gao, “Factor Decomposition of China’s Industrial Electricity Consumption Using Structural Decomposition Analysis”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2019, Vol.51, pp.67-76

· Yuning Gao, Meichen Zhang, “An Analysis of China’s Provincial Level Technical Efficiency with Carbon Emission Factored in and its Structural Determinants”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2019, Vol.49, pp.120-129.

· Yuning Gao, Wenyin Cheng and Quanxi Yuan, “Understanding the Global Imbalance through Outsourcing Activity in China”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Review, 2018, Vol. 16, No.4, pp. 337-356.

· Bo Meng, Yu Liu, Robbie Andrewe, Meifang Zhou, Klaus Hubacek, Jinjun Xue, Glen Peters, Yuning Gao, “More than half of China’s CO2 emissions are from micro, small and medium sized enterprises”, Applied Energy, 2018, Vol. 230, pp.712–725.

· Yuning Gao, Miao Yu, “Analysis on the Economic Impact of South-to-North Water Diversion on Industrial Sectors in Beijing”, Journal of Economic Structures, 2018, Vol.7, Iss.4, pp.1-17.

· Yuning Gao, Yunfeng Zheng, Angang Hu, “Input-Output-Based Genuine Value Added and Genuine Productivity in China's Industrial Sectors (1995-2010)”, Singapore Economic Review, 2018, Vol.63, No.2, pp. 213–228.

· Yu Liu, Bo Meng, Klaus Hubacek, Jinjun Xue, Kuishuang Feng, Yuning Gao, “’Made in China: A Reevaluation of Embodied CO2 Emissions in Chinese Exports using Firm Heterogeneity Information”, Applied Energy, 2016, Vol.184, pp.1106-1113.

· Yuning Gao，Angang Hu, “China as the Workshop of the World: Perspective of Processing Activities and Foreign Invested Enterprises”, Emerging Market Trade and Finance, 2014, Vol. 50, No. 5.

· Angang Hu, Yuning Gao, Yilong Yan，Xing Wei, “China’s Role in the Rising of the South：Vision for 2030”, IDS Bulletin, 2014, Vol.45, No. 4.

· Yuning Gao, “China’s Changing Workplace: Dynamism, Diversity and Disparity”, The China Journal, No. 71, January 2014.

· Yuning Gao，D’Maris Coffman, “Renminbi Internationalization as a Response to the Global Imbalance”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Review, 2013, Vol. 11, No.2.

· Yuning Gao，Angang Hu, “Comparative Study on the Development Mode of China’s Iron and Steel Industry”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Review, 2009, Vol. 7, No.3.

In Chinese

· Jiaxin Li, Shaoguo Zhan, Yuning Gao, “Global Value Chain Embedment and Product Strategies of Multi-product Exporters — Based on the Binary Margin Perspective”，Zhejiang Social Sciences, 2025, Iss.6., 16-29.

· Xinming Xia, Qingchun Wang, Yuning Gao, “Consumption driven demand in global value chains and the green innovation transformation of enterprises”, Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology), 2024 online.

· Wenyin Cheng, Xia Pan, Jin Chen, Yuning Gao, “How Does the Privatization of State-owned Enterprises Affect Original Innovation: Examining the Role of Institutions and Policies”，Science of Science and Management of S.&T., 2024, Iss.9., 71-90.

· Zhaochen Li, Tiankuo Han, Yuning Gao, “The International Comparison Method of GDP and the Relative Trends of GDP Changes between China and the United States”，Journal of Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, 2024, Iss.1., 11-20.

· Meng Li, Mingxi Xia, Yuning Gao, Angang Hu, “Embodied Carbon through Domestic Value Chain and Design of Provicial Mitigation Roadmap under the Target of Carbon Neutrality”, International Economic Review, online.

· Yuqing Xing, Bo Meng, Yuning Gao, “The China-US Trade Imbalance and Global Value Chains”, Studies of International Finance, 2023, Iss.1, 3-15.

· Anqi Yu, Guankun Liu, Yuning Gao, “Analysis on SO2 Decomposition Effect from China’s Manufacturing Industry”, China Journal of Economics, 2022, Vol.9, No.4, pp1-23.

· Ying Chen, Yuning Gao, “ Strategic Choices of Digital Trade Opening - The Comparative Analysis of the U. S. , EU, China and India”，International Trade, 2022, Iss.5, 49-55.

· Miaoyu, Yuning Gao, Angang Hu, “The puzzle of counter life-cycle of Chinese household saving rate: an analysis based on the perspective of competitive saving”, China Population, Resources and Environment, 2021, Vol. 30, Iss. 3, pp.62-72

· Shenglong Liu, Junyi Zhang, Yuning Gao, “Interprovincial Migration and Crime: Evidence from China”, Academic Research Journal, 2018, No.5, pp.93-103.

· Angang Hu, Hao Ren, Yuning Gao, “Review of American Manufacturing Revitalizing Policy from the Global Financial Crisis”, International Economic Review, 2018, No.2, pp.112-130.

· Angang Hu, Junyi Zhang, Yuning Gao, “Foreign Assistance and National Soft Power: China’s Status Quo and Countermeasures, Journal of Wuhan University (Humanity and Social Science), 2017, No. 3, pp.1-9.

· Angang Hu, Dilixiati Wubuli, Chengzheng Hang, Yuning Gao, “Central State Owned Enterprises’ Participation in the One Belt One Road Program: Status Quo, Problems and Countermeasures”, Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Science), 2017, No.2, pp.5-15.

· Angang Hu, Xin Zhang, Yuning Gao, “State-owned Enterprises: Important Foundations of Ensuring National Financial Capacity”, Journal of China National School of Administration, 2016, No.2, pp.19-26.

· Angang Hu, Yunfeng Zheng, Yuning Gao, “Study on Genuine TFP of China’s high Energy-Consuming Industries (1995-2010)—From the Perspective of Input-Output”, China Industrial Economics, 2015, No.5, pp.44-56.

· Angang Hu, Yunfeng Zheng, Yuning Gao, “The Evaluation on the Comprehensive National Power of China and the USA (1990-2013)”, Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Science), 2015, No.1, pp.2-16.

· Shenglong Liu, Yuning Gao, Angang Hu, “Electricity Consumption and China’s Economic Growth”, Industrial Economics Research, 2014, No.3, pp.71-80.

· Angang Hu, Yuning Gao, Yilong Yan, “From Straggler, Pursuer to Transcendent: Road of China’s Industrial Development through a Century (1913-2013), Zhejiang Social Sciences, 2013, No.9, pp.4-13.

· Angang Hu, Xing Wei, Yuning Gao, “Evaluation on the Competitiveness of State-owned Enterprises in China (2003-2011): The Perspective of the Fortune Global 500”, Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), No.1, 2013, pp.72-83.

Book Chapters

In English

· Yuning Gao and Qizhen Wang, “China’s Global Investment: Structure, Route and Performance”, in Anna Jaguaribe ed., Direction of Chinese Global Investments: Implications for Brazil, Alexandre de Gusm?o Foundation Press, 2018 (ISBN 9788576317234).

· Yuning Gao, “China’s Investment to the Euro Zone: Structure, Route and Performance”, in Roberto Scazzieri ed., The Political Economy of the Eurozone, Cambridge University Press, 2017 (ISBN 9781107124011).

· Yuning Gao and Junyi Zhang, “Emerging China and Its Impact on ASEAN Economies”, in Young-Chan Kim ed. China and her Global production networks in Asia, Springer, 2016 (ISBN 9783319242309).

· Prince C. Cruz, Yuning Gao and Leilei Song, “Is China’s Financial Market Liquid Enough for RMB Internationalization?”, in Berry Eichengreen and Masahiro Kawai ed. Renminbi Internationalization: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges, Brooking Institution Press and Asian Development Bank, 2015 (ISBN: 9780815726111).

In Chinese

· Yuning Gao, “Integrating into Globalization: Strategies and Paths for Participating in the Global Division of Labor System”，in Xiaojuan Jiang, Weimin Yang, Fang Cai, Wei Liu, Angang Hu, Lan Xue, Shaojie Zhou eds., China’s Economic Development Model Evolution and Prospects, People’s Publishing House, 2024.

· Yuning Gao, Yiyao Li, “China’s International Development Experience in Poverty Reduction: Multi-objective System and National Development Strategy”，in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences National Global Strategy Think Tank, Research Institute of China Development Bank eds., International Poverty Reduction Cooperation: Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind — Joint Research Report (No.5), Social Sciences Academic Press, 2019.

· Yuning Gao, Miao Yu, “Technological Change and Sustainable Development: Anawlysis from the Perspective of China’s Industrial Electricity Consumption”，in Jinjun Xue, Qingzhe Jiang eds., Annual Report on China’s Low Carbon Economy Development 2019, University of International Business and Economics Press, 2019.

· Yuning Gao, Yunfeng Zheng, Angang Hu, Miao Yu, “Input-output Based Accounting analysis of Genuine Value-Added and Genuine Productivity in China’s Industrial Sectors (1995-2010)”, in Jinjun Xue, Zhongxiu Zhao eds., Annual Report on China’s Low Carbon Economy Development 2016, Social Science Academic Press, 2016.

· Yuning Gao, Yunfeng Zheng, Angang Hu, ”Input–Output Based Genuine Value Added of China’s Industrial Sectors (1995-2010)”，in Jinjun Xue, Zhongxiu Zhao eds., Annual Report on China’s Low Carbon Economy Development 2015, Social Science Academic Press, 2015.

Projects in Charge

· “Studies on the Integrated Development of Outward Investment and Trade”, Institute for National Governance and Global Governance, Tsinghua University, 2024.

· “Research on the Role and Pathways of Data Factor in the Dual-Circulation Development Pattern”, China Mobile Communication Co.,Ltd., 2023

· “Study, Dialogue and Guidelines on the Green Value Chain of Major Agricultural Commodities Between China and Latin America”, The Nature Conservancy, 2023

· “Research on the Evaluation Indicator System for the Sustainable Development of Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry Enterprises”, Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd., 2023

· “Studies on the Support of Central State Owned Enterprises to the Stabilization of China’s Foreign Trade”, Division of International Affairs, State Asset Supervision and Administration Committee，2022

· “Studies on the Evaluation Indicator System of the Sustainable Development of China’s Enterprises”, Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., 2022

· “Studies on the Comprehensive Measurement Indicator System of the Contribution of Foreign Trade to National Economy under the New Development Pattern”, Institute of National Governance and Global Governance, Tsinghua University, 2022

· “********”, (off-the-record), National Social Science Foundation of China Major Special Project，2021

· “Consumption based carbon accounting and agricultural commodity imports to China from Tropical Areas”, The Nature Conservancy (Beijing), 2021

· “Studies on the New Dynamics, Influences to China and countermeasure of International Industrial Transfer from the Pandemic”, Institute of National Governance and Global Governance, Tsinghua University, 2021

· “Development and Reshaping of Global Industrial Chain in the Post Pandemic Era, Center of Industrial Development and Environmental Governance, Tsinghua University,，2020

· “Study on the determinants and the Policy Analysis Framework of the Genuine Value Added and Genuine Productivity of China's Provinces and Industries under the Global Value Chain”, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project (71873075), 2018.

· “Study on China’s Tariff Rate and Corresponding Stage of Development in the New Era”, Division of Tariff, Ministry of Finance, 2017.

· “Genuine Productivity from the Perspective of Global Value Chains: An Analysis Based on Big Data of Added Value”, Special Projects of Young Teachers’ Fundamental Research of Independent Study of Tsinghua University, 2016.

· “Regional and Industrial Economic Growth Quality and Input-Output Analysis from the Green Productivity Perspectives”, Research Projects of Humanities and Social Sciences Revitalization of Tsinghua University, 2015.

· “Tracing China’s Carbon Emission in Global Supply Chain”, Center of Industrial Development and Environmental Governance, Tsinghua University, 2013.

Projects Participated

· “Research on Building high-standard socialist market economy system”， Major Project of the Marxism Theory Study and Construction Work，2025，Project Coordinator: Xiaojuan Jiang, Yongheng Yang.

· “Studies on the Model and Characteristic of China’s Economic Development”，Major Project of the Marxism Theory Study and Construction Work，2021，Project Coordinator: Xiaojuan Jiang.

· “Research on Carbon Accounting by Consumption-Based Accounting for China’s Imports of Agricultural Products from Latin America”, The Nature Conservancy, 2020, Project Coordinator: Shantong Li.

· “Impact and Policy Response of Major Public Health Emergences on Industrial Supply Chain”, National Science Foundation of China Special Project, 2020, Project Coordinator: Jiansuo Pei.

· “Study on the Domestic Regional Division of Labor and Market Integration under the Perspective of Global Value Chain”, National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Project, 2018, Project Coordinator: Shantong Li.

· “Consulting Project on the Accounting of Provincial Trade in Value Added”, Ministry of Commerce, 2018, Project Coordinator: Shantong Li.

· “Study on the Evaluation System Construction and Path of Implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goal Agenda”, National Social Science Foundation of China Major Project, 2017, Project Coordinator: Can Wang.

· “Central State-Owned Enterprises’ Participation in the One Belt One Road Program: Status Quo, Problems and Countermeasures”, China Development Bank, 2015, Project Coordinator: Angang Hu.

· “Study on the Comprehensive Value of State-Owned Enterprises”, State Asset Supervision and Administration Committee, 2013, Project Coordinator: Angang Hu.