On October 28, the Publicity Department of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China announced the list of works (projects) receiving special funding awards and support for the 2025 Liaoning Province Publishing Excellence Program. Professor Yu Miaojie’s new work, New Quality Productive Forces: The Engine of Chinese Modernisation, published by Liaoning University Press, was successfully selected.
As a companion volume to New Development Concepts: The Foundational Color of Chinese Modernization, this work draws upon the practical experience of China’s economic development in the new era. It provides a profound analysis of the theoretical underpinnings and practical pathways of new quality productive forces, systematically elucidating their central role in advancing the process of Chinese modernization.
The book is structured into five sections. The first section interprets policy directions from a macroeconomic perspective, analyzing the pivotal position of new quality productive forces as the driving power of reform; The second section focuses on the essential characteristics of new quality productive forces, exploring how technological breakthroughs, factor allocation and industrial upgrading can achieve high-quality development; The third section combines regional development strategies to demonstrate the practical value of new quality productive forces in promoting coordinated regional development; The fourth section adopts a global view to explore development opportunities and challenges within a high-level open pattern; The fifth part concentrates on the core of talents, emphasizing the foundational role of talent cultivation in developing new-quality productive forces and advancing Chinese modernization.
The selection of projects for the Liaoning Province Publishing Excellence Special Fund Awards and Support Program, holding by the Publicity Department of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, represents a key initiative to deepen the understanding and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, profoundly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, continuously enhance the quality of publications and promote high-quality development in Liaoning’s publishing industry. This work combines policy acumen with practical insight, offering not only rich reference material for policymakers, but also guiding readers who interested in China’s economic development towards understanding the transformation and upgrading of the Chinese economy in the new era. Through comprehensive and in-depth analysis, it powerfully demonstrates the central role of new-quality productive forces as the engine of Chinese modernization, while illuminating the bright prospects for China’s high-quality economic development in a complex international landscape.
Author’s Profile:
Professor Yu Miaojie is the Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee and President of Liaoning University. He is a fellow of the International Economic Association of the United Nations, a Distinguished Professor of National-level Talent Program, winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and Distinguished Boya Professor of Peking University. He also serves as Deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress, Special Supervisory Officer of the National Supervisory Commission, Vice President of the Liaoning Provincial Discipline Inspection and Supervision Association, Member of the Standing Committee of the 14th Liaoning Provincial People’s Congress, and Vice Chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Federation of Social Sciences. He is a receiver of the special government allowance of the State Council.
Professor Yu’s main research fields are international trade and China’s economic development. He has published nearly 200 papers in top and first-class journals at home and abroad, such as Economic Journal, Review of Economics & Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Research and Managing the World. In addition, he authored 34 monographs, textbooks and essays in Chinese, English and German languages. He acts as the associate editor (the first Asian to hold this position) of the world’s premier economics journal: The Economic Journal, the associate editor of Review of International Economics, the honorary chief editor of International Trade from the Ministry of Commerce, the chief editor of Journal of Liaoning University and Japan Studies, the executive chief editor of Journal of Chang’an University, and Editorial Board Member or Guest Chief Editor of other 20+ renowned domestic and international academic journals, such as Basic Research from National Natural Science Foundation of China. He ranks among the top 1% globally for highly cited papers in economics and management studies. His solo-authored paper has been recognized as one of the three most influential studies on the Chinese economy which published in the world’s premier economics journal: The Economic Journal, since its founding in 1891. Up to now, he remains the only Chinese scholar who have been awarded the Royal Economics Prize independently.
Professor Yu has been honoured with the Ministry of Education’s Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences (three times), the Wu Yuzhang Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences Research, the Zhang Peigang Prize for Development Economics, the An Zijie Prize for International Trade Research (five times), the Liu Shibai Prize for Economics (twice), the Hu Sheng Young Scholar Research Award, the National Trade Development Research Award, the China Young Economist Award, the Liaoning Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award, and the Beijing Municipal Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences, etc. He has been repeatedly listed among the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University and featured in Elsevier’s annual list of China’s Highly Cited Scholars. He is the inaugural Young Scholar of National-level Talent Program (2015), Beijing’s Outstanding Young Scientist, the member of the Ministry of Commerce’s Economic and Trade Policy Advisory Committee, the director of the Ministry of Finance’s China-US Research Think Tank Alliance, the honorary professor of Irkutsk State University in Russia, and the international advisory council member in the Russian Federal University of Finance and Economics. He serves as the expert advisor of the United Nations, Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, State Council Office of Counsellors and many other local governments. He was specially invited to give presentations of China’s economic development at United Nations Headquarters.
Professor Yu was specially received as an outstanding representative of young and middle-aged faculty by General-Secretary Xi Jinping during the 120th anniversary celebration of Peking University. He attended a symposium with the then Prime Minister as an outstanding representative of the 25th anniversary of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. In 2024, he visited the Federal Assembly and regional legislatures of Russia as a member of a delegation of young representatives from the National People’s Congress. As a specially appointed supervisor of the National Commission of Supervision, he attended the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He also represented China as a distinguished university president at the China-Italy and China-Belarus University Presidents’ Forums.
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