MBA Forum: Demographic Change and Chinese-Style Modernization / MBA Info Session
Nov 27-2022
The report of the 20th CCP National Congress points out that China will have practically completed its socialist modernization by 2035 and the Chinese-style modernization is one involving a population of immense size. It also stresses the construction of a fertility support policy system and the implementation of a national strategy to actively address issues of aging. The upcoming lecture will take the requirements of Chinese-style modernization as the starting point and expound on the challenges and opportunities born out of demographic trends, before offering policy advice.
Event information
Topic: Demographic Change and Chinese-Style Modernization / MBA Info Session
Time: 14:00-16:00, Sunday November 27, 2022
Format: Online
Language: Chinese
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Agenda:
14:00-14:30 Introduction of MBA programs at NSD
14:30-15:30 Lecture: Demographic Change and Chinese-Style Modernization
15:30-15:45 Lecture Q&A
15:45-16:00 MBA application Q&A
About Lecturer
Prof. Lei Xiaoyan is NSD’s Professor of Economics, PKU Bo Ya Distinguished Professor, and the Ministry of Education’s Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor. She is also CCP Party Secretary at the NSD, Director of the NSD’s Academic Committee, Director of PKU Center of Healthy Aging and Development Studies (CHADS), Deputy Director of MOE-PKU Center for Human Capital and Policy (CHCP), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of both Economics (Quarterly) and Journal of Economics of Aging, and Rotating Chairperson of China Labor-Economics Scholars Forum 2021-2022. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Economics from Ren Min University in 1997 and 2000 respectively, and Master’s and Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles in 2003 and 2007 respectively. Since 2007 she has been teaching at the NSD.
Prof. Lei’s major research interests include labor economics, health economics, and applied metrology. She has published dozens of academic papers in international journals, such as Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Human Resources, as well as in domestic ones like Economic Research Journal and Economics (Quarterly)
At the NSD, Prof. Lei has taught Labor Economics (for graduate students), Empirical Strategies (graduates), Health Economics (graduates), Intermediate Micro-Economics (dual-degree undergraduates), and Management Economics (MBA).
