Professor QIU Huanguang

Professor Qiu Huanguang, born in May 1976 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, is a distinguished economist, Doctor of Science, CPC member, and the Secretary of the CPC Committee of Liaoning University. As a nationally recognized leading scholar in agricultural and development economics, he is a Distinguished Professor under a talent program of the Ministry of Education, recipient of special government allowances from the State Council, Chief Economist of the national agricultural industry technology system, and president of Beijing Association of Agricultural Economics.

Professor Qiu boasts a rigorous international academic training system. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural and Forestry Economic Management from Qingdao Agricultural University in 1998, followed by master’s and doctoral degrees from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences between 2001 and 2005. He completed postdoctoral research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2005 to 2006, served as a Newton International Fellow at SOAS, University of London (2009–2011) funded by the Royal Society of the UK, and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland in the United States (2017–2018). His professional trajectory includes research positions at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, professorship and Dean of the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University of China, and Vice Member of the Standing Committee and Vice President of Liaoning University starting June 2024 before his current appointment.

His core research agenda centers on agricultural development policy, resource and environmental economics, urban-rural integrated development, agricultural trade, and spatial general equilibrium modeling, with remarkable cross-disciplinary breakthroughs in empirical quantitative analysis and policy evaluation. Over his academic career, he has presided over seven National Natural Science Foundation projects, one National Social Science Fund project, plus over 30 national sub-programs including the 973 Program and National Science and Technology Support Program, alongside international collaborative research funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.

He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, over 70 of which are indexed in SCI/SSCI journals. His landmark work on ecological effects of poverty alleviation resettlement was featured in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), one of the world’s top multidisciplinary journals, while dozens of his papers appear in China’s premier economic journals such as Economic Research Journal and Management World. He has authored or edited 15 monographs in both Chinese and English, and numerous policy consultation reports submitted to central government authorities have received official endorsement.

His academic excellence has won him major honors: the First Prize of the Ministry of Agriculture Soft Science Research Award, Second and Third Prizes of the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award, the China Rural Development Research Award, and the Zhang Peigang Development Economics Award, China’s highest honor in development economics. He was selected as one of the inaugural National Excellent Young Scientists in 2012 and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2013, testifying to his global academic influence.