Title: Structure and Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for the Chinese Economy

Speaker: Ming Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Time: 2025/10/24 10:00-11:30

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

About the speaker:

Ming LU is Distinguished Professor of Economics, Director of Shanghai Institute for National Economy (SHINE), and research fellow of China Institute of Urban Governance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  He is appointed as a member of the National 15th Five Year Plan Expert Committee and a member of the Shanghai Decision Making Advisory Committee. He worked as a professor at Fudan University, and as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has consulted for the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. His research covers regional and urban-rural development, labor economics and Chinese economy. Recently, his work evaluates the urban and regional development policies, and their effects on resource allocation and economic sustainability from a perspective of spatial political economics.