Xiang Songzuo

Xiang Songzuo ( Chinese  向 松 祚 , Pinyin Xiàng Sōngzuò ; born January 28, 1965 ) is an economist . He is a professor at Renmin University in the finance department. Before that he was at the Agricultural Bank of China and Vice Director of the Chinese People's Bank .

Career

In 1986, he graduated from the University of Science and Technology in Central China with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering . He graduated from the Chinese People's University with a master's degree in economics and a Ph. D. He also holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University . He is currently Deputy Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for International Monetary Research at China People's University and a member of the Advisory Board of the Official Forum for Monetary and Financial Institutions. He is also a fellow at Johns Hopkins University at the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Business Enterprise degree.

research

Xiang has published numerous articles on the topic of financial policy and has won various awards in the PRC. He has delved into the classics of Western economics, the history of the US economy, the history of global finance, and the development of the international monetary system. In his main work, Games not with the exchange rate ( Chinese  不要 玩弄 汇率 ), he denounces the exchange rate policy of the USA and Japan because they demand an increase in the renminbi and thus implicitly damage the Chinese economy. He gained international fame through a lecture in Shanghai in which he criticized Xi Jinping's economic policy and claimed that economic growth was much lower than the official statistics indicate. Official economic growth in 2018 was 6.5%, but according to the statistics quoted by Xiang, it was only 1.67% or even negative. He urged economic and especially tax reforms. He is also critical of the policy of pushing back the private sector, which was propagated at the beginning of 2018. The lecture was recorded as a YouTube video and censored in the PRC.

Works

• 向 松 祚 (Author), 不要 玩弄 汇率 (Title), 北京大学 出版社 出 (Publisher), 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Xiang Songzuo . In: CV . Retrieved November 21, 2019. 
2. ↑ CV Xiang Songzuo. China Finance 40 Forum, accessed November 21, 2019 (Chinese). 
3. ↑ Xiang Songzuo: A Great Shift Unseen Over the Last Forty Years. December 28, 2018, accessed November 21, 2019 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Xiang is the family name here, Songzuo is the first name.