Li Xiaoxi: Scientific Development and a New Green Deal

Abstract: After 30 years of reform and opening, China has become the world’s second largest economy. However, the fast growth has come at the high cost of environmental degradation and resource consumption. The existing resource reserves and environment will not able to sustain the rapid economic development of the future, which demands thatChina to transform its model for development.China should keep pace with the trend of world civilization and grasp the opportunity for green development.

Keywords: Resources and environment, Ecological civilization, Green development

Source: China Finance and Economic Review, Volume 2, No.1, 2013

About the Author: Li Xiaoxi, Vice Director of the Scholarly Activity Committee and Honorary Dean of Economic and Resource Management Institute of Beijing Normal University, Convener of the Economy Section of the Social Science Committee of Ministry of Education of China, Professor and Ph.D supervisor of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, Visiting Professor for Peking University and other key universities in China, Director of the Institute of Capital Science Strategy Development, Member of the China Council for International Cooperation on the  Environment and Development and Director of the Research Center of Asia- Pacific Green Development. He is also Vice-director of China Market Study Association and member of other 20 councils.

Li worked in the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as visiting scholar in 1988.He worked in the Research Office of the State Council of China from 1993 to 2001 and once took the office of Director of Commission of Macroeconomic Study. In 2001, he was transferred to Beijing Normal University. The Report on Market Economy Development in China was formulated under his leadership. In addition, the Report on Green Development Index in China was formulated under his leadership for three years. He publicized around 300 articles and 40 books in past three decades, some of which were awarded with First Class of China Book Prize, China Soft Science Prize, Sun Yefang Economy Prize and Wu Yuzhang Economy Prize.