As one of the first batch of key disciplines in Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (the Academy), Regional Economics (the Discipline) implements the responsibility system of chief expert, and such chief specialists are currently two senior researchers in the Academy.
Guo Xiaoming: Researcher, chief expert of the Discipline, vice-president of Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, doctoral supervisor. As an excellent specialist with significant contribution to Sichuan Province, Mr. Go enjoys the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, also one leader of the provincial academy and technology, and the winner of the Sixth Sichuan Outstanding Innovation Talented Person Award.
Liu Shiqing: Researcher, chief expert of the Discipline, the Secretary-general of Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences Western Development Research Center. As an excellent specialist with important contribution to Sichuan Province, Mr. Liu enjoys the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, also one leader of the provincial academy and technology.
At present, the Discipline mainly sets two key academic orientations:
-Regional harmonious utilization of natural resources and ecological environment protection and research. The direction has three major aspects for research: biodiversity protection elements allocation, mechanism for ecological compensation and community protection area and new rural construction. The academic team inclusive of scientific backbones are researchers, Guo Xiaoming and Xu Wei, PhDs i.e. Shen Maoying, Li Shengzhi, Ding Yi, Liao Zujun, Li Xiaoyan, and other academic leaders with high scientific attainments as well as a school of young and middle-aged academic talents. In the past over 30 years, the Academy has accumulated rich experience on forestry economy, ecological protection, resource ownership and participatory rural development and other relative fields, which thus already exerts significant impact on the theoretical research Sichuan (even the Western China) environmental economics theory research and biodiversity conservation practice fields.
-Regional development and open cooperative study. The direction conducts five key aspects for research: western development, evaluation of regional development, regional opening-up and cooperation, regional sustainable development, and regional development and policy. The backbone of scientific research and academic echelon include researchers i.e. Liu Shiqing, Wang Xinqian, Liao Guo and other academic leaders with high scientific achievements and a school of young and middle-aged academic backbones, who have long-term experiences, very familiar to Sichuan’s social and economic development; and therefore, boasting powerful R&D capacity and many results, in Sichuan the Discipline has advantages in regional economic research as well as discipline construction.