GAO Yuning-School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University

Dr. Yuning Gao is tenured associate professor, doctoral supervisor and, Huayu associate professor, director of the Institute of International Development and Global Governance, executive director of MPA education center at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. He served as deputy director of the Institute of Service Economy and Digital Governance, Tsinghua University and associate researcher at Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University. He holds PhD in Economics from University of Cambridge, Master of Management and Bachelor of Engineering from Tsinghua University. He serves as the standing Board Member of the Committee of Social and Economic System Engineering of the Society of System Engineering of China, and honorary associate professor at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College of London. He also serves as the associate editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. He was elected as the 31^st president of Chinese Economics Association Europe/UK served as visiting professor at Graduate School of economics, Nagoya University.

Dr. Gao’s main research fields include international economics and international development, resource and environmental economics and policy together with digital economy and global governance. He took charge of more than 10 research projects including the major projects of National Social Science Foundation of China and general projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China. His publication includes Scientific Data, One Earth, Energy Economics, China Economic Review, China Industrial Economics, China Economic Quarterly etc.

The courses he taught includes joint PhD course International Development and Global Governance, Economic Theory (II) and Master course Economic Development and Policy of China, which was award “excellent graduate course” of Tsinghua University and “model English course for overseas students” of the Ministry of Education. He was award first grade in the 10th Beijing Teaching Skill Competition of Junior Faculties of Higher Education Institutions, first grade of 2015 Beijing Excellent Achievement Award in Project Consultation, second grade of the 14th Beijing Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences and second grade of the 7th Outstanding Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education.

Publications

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, 2023, forthcoming.

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

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 (SSCI), 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 (SCIE), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 2022, Vol.73, 101792, 1-18.

Anqi Yu, Guankun Liu, Yuning Gao, Intergenerational Occupational Mobility, Labor Migration and Sustained Demographic Dividends, Sustainability (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (ESCI), 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 (SCIE), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 2020, Vol.90, 104872, 1-15

Xia Pan, Yuning Gao, Dong Guo, Wenyin Cheng, Does Higher Education Promote Firm

Innovation in China?, Sustainability (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SCI), 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 (SSCI), 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 (SCI), 2016, Vol.184, pp.1106-1113.

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

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

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

Yuning Gao and 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

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 Ecoomy 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, Miao Yu, “Technological Change and Sustainable Development: Analysis 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 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 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

“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.

“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.