Recently, the China Economic Education and Research Network (www.cenet.org.cn) reprinted an article from the “Theory Platform” of Tsinghua University entitled “Chinese Stories in the Authoritative Journal The Economic Journal at a Glance”. The author made statistics on the articles containing Chinese stories published by The Economic Journal, a top journal in the field of economics. The results showed that the most influential articles (the top ten cited articles since the founding of the journal), the articles of Prof. Yu Miaojie of Liaoning University ranked third. For the most influential articles in the past decade (the top ten cited articles in the past decade), Prof. Yu Miaojie of Liaoning University ranked second.

Prof. Yu Miaojie published his paper named “Processing Trade, Tariff Reduction and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Firms” in the journal in July 2014, with 678 citations on Google Scholar.

The Economic Journal, founded in 1891, is one of the top journals in the field of economics. It aims to provide a high-quality, innovative and imaginative research platform for scholars and researchers in economics related fields, and publish cutting-edge developments and latest research achievements in economics. The journal has received extensive attention and has a large number of readers worldwide.

Introduction to the author:

YU Miaojie  Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee and President of Liaoning University; Distinguished Professor of National Talent Program; Distinguished Professor of Boya Program, Peking University; Recipient of China’s National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; Outstanding Young Scientist of Beijing’s institutions of higher education; Ph.D in Economics from University of California, Davis; Economist with top 1% highly cited papers in global economic management; Executive Editor of International Trade and Journal of Chang’an University; Deputy Editor of Review of International Economics. His main research areas are international trade and China’s economic development. He has published more than 150 papers in first-class journals at home and abroad, including Economic Journal, Review of Economics & Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and Economic Research Journal, as well as 22 monographs in Chinese and English. His research on China’s economic development has won prizes including the Royal Economics Award, and the Excellence Award of the 7th Wu Yuzhang Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences.