Li Yang, male and from the Han ethnic group, born in September 1951, is a native of Huainan, Anhui Province and a member of the Communist Party of China. In July 1989, he graduated from the department of finance of China’s Renmin University as a postgraduate. He serves as director, researcher and PhD student advisor in the Institute of Finance and Banking of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and PhD student advisor, Vice-President of the Chinese Society of Finance and Banking, executive director of the Chinese Finance Society, Chinese International Finance Society and Chinese Urban Financial Society. From 2001 to2004, he was a member of the People’s Bank of China Monetary Policy Committee. His academic expertise is in Finance, Public Finance and Macro-Economics. In 1992, he won the “Young and Mid-aged Expert with Outstanding Contribution” Award. Since 1993, he has started to enjoy a special allowance awarded by the State Council. In 1997, he was nominated by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China as a National Candidate in the “Million of Talents Project”.

Editor: Wang Daohang