Justin Yifu Lin is Professor and Founding Director of the China
Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University and Professor
of Economics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
He received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago
in 1986 and is the author of eight books, including the China
Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, which has been
published in seven languages, and the State-owned Enterprise Reform,
which is available in Chinese, Japanese, and English. He has published
more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and
collected volumes on history, development, and transition. Among
many of his public roles in China, Justin Yifu Lin is a senior
advisor to the Drafting Committee of China's Tenth Five-year Plan,
an advisor to the State Leading Group of IT Development, an advisor
to the mayors of Beijing, Shanghai Tianjin, and Liaoning Province,
and a member of the National Committee, China People's Political
Consultation Conference. He also serves on several international
committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy,
technology, and environment. He was awarded the 1993 and 2001
Sun Yefang Prize (the highest honour for economist in China),
the 1993 Policy Article Prize of Centre for International Food
and Agricultural Policy at University of Minnesota, the 1997 Sir
John Crawford Award of the Australian Agricultural and Resource
Economics Society, the 1999 Best Article Prize of the Australian
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Citation Classic
Award in 2000 (by the publisher of Social Science Citation Index),
Docteur Honoris Causa, Universite D'Auvergne, France in 2004,
and various other prizes.
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