October 10, 2022

Presented by Dr Qian Jiwei.

It was an honor to have Dr Qian Jiwei as a presenter in one of our Master of Economics (ME) Seminar Series. Dr Qian Jiwei is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His research has been published in publications such as Australian Economic History Review, China Quarterly, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Policy and Society, Public Choice, and Social Science & Medicine among others. His most recent book is The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). He is also the co-editor of Innovation and China’s Global Emergence (with Erik Baark and Bert Hofman, NUS press, 2021). He is on the editorial board of China: An International Journal, East Asian Policy and Journal of Chinese Economy. He received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Fudan University, China and PhD in Economics from National University of Singapore.

During his presentation, Dr. Qian discussed about the development of the digital economy in China. Major digital platforms have been leading players in past decades in China. The speaker argued that for future development of the digital economy, the role of the state is going to be critical in areas including industrial policy, competition policy and innovation policy.