Staff profiles

Applied Economics and Policy

• Labour economics
• Applied economics
• Employment, unemployment and migration
• Chinese economy and labour market
• Econometric analysis of panel data
• Data envelopment analysis

The Impact of Migrants' Remittances on Consumption and Savings in Rural China, British Academy, (with Dr Yu Zhu, University of Kent, 2007-2009)

• President of the Chinese Economic Association in the UK (2007-2008)
• Principal organiser of CEA (UK) 18th Annual Conference, in April 2007, Nottingham (145 submissions, 85 speakers, and attended by 120 people from 15 countries)
• Co-organiser of CEA (UK) and CCES joint international conferences in Fudan University, Shanghai (September 2007)
• The Best Paper Award, by the Chinese Economic Association in the UK (2002-2003)
• Member of the American Economic Association and the Royal Economic Society
• Referee for:
  • Applied Economics
  • Economics of Planning
  • Journal of Comparative Economics
  • Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies
  • Journal of Population Economics

• Zhongmin has three years experience as a PhD supervisor.
• He encourages applications from potential PhD students who are interested in research topics similar to his own.
• Zhongmin is willing to be a member of a PhD supervisory team for dissertations covering a wide range of topics in economics.