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Professor Yong Wang is Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University and a Young Changjiang Scholar conferred by the Ministry of Education of China. Before joining PKU, he worked at the Department of Economics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the World Bank. Yong obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His main research fields are Economic Growth, Industrial Policies, Macro Development, China and India's Economy, and New Structural Economics. He publishes academic papers on leading academic journals including Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics , Journal of Public Economics and Research Policy, and is an author of nine books including Industrial Policies: Summary, Reflection and Prospect (Peking University Press) and Industrial Upgrading and Economic Growth: Perspectives from New Structural Economics (Peking University Press). He serves as Secretary General of the New Structural Economic Research Alliance, Secretary General of the Global Research Consortium of Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST), Consultant of the World Bank, and Research Associate of Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, Vice Chairperson of China’s Development Economics Association. He received the First Prize of National Academic Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in Chinese Universities by the Ministry of Education of China (2020) and the Inaugural Peikang Chang Young Scholar Award in Development Economics (2018), among others. Yong is actively involved in policy discussions within Chinese government and also often invited to participate various policy activities in the United Nations, World Bank, IMF, UNIDO, AIIB and ADB. Website: www.yongwangecon.com