Associate professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Research Institute for Global Value Chains, University of International Business and Economics

Email: heqi@uibe.edu.cn

Education:

2012.09-2015.07 Ph.D., Management, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing, China

2009.09-2012.06Master degree, Economics, School of Economics and Management, Hainan University, Hainan, China

2005.09-2009.06Bachelor degree, Economics, School of Economics and Management, Hainan University, Hainan, China

Work Experience:

May 2021-PresentAssociate researcher, Research Institute of Global Value Chains, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

Jul. 2018-Apr. 2021Assistant researcher, Research Institute of Global Value Chains, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

Oct. 2016-Sep. 2017Academic visitor, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.

Oct. 2015-Jue. 2018Postdoctoral, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Research Interest:

Green global value chain, trade and environment, climate change and low carbon cities, environmental justice, the issues related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers and sustainable development

Courses:

“Green global value chains”, for postgraduate students and international students

“Economics of climate change”, for doctoral candidates

Publications:

Yafei Wang，Dingyi Xu, Heran Zheng，Ming Ye, Meichen Zhang, Qi He, Kun Cai，Dabo Guan, Shantong Li，Hong Ma, Bo Meng，Zhi Wang，Yang Wang, Lixiao Xu, Xianchun Xu, Peihao Yang & Qianhong Ouyang，An inter-city input-output database distinguishing firm ownership in the Greater China area during 2002–2017, Scientific Data, 2025,12, 723.(SCIE)




Xin Huang, Qi He, Zengkai Zhang, Kunfu Zhu. Two sides of the same coin: The economic and environmental effects of China's international trade from a global value chain perspective，China Economic Review，2023, 79 (101952）.(SSCI)




Can Li, Qi He*, Han Ji. Can global value chain upgrading promote regional economic growth? Empirical evidence and mechanism analysis based on city-level panel data in china. Sustainability, 2023, 15, 11732. （SCIE/SSCI）




Can Li, Qi He, Han Ji, Shengguo Yu, Jiao Wang. Reexamining the impact of global value chain participation on regional economic growth: New evidence based on a nonlinear model and spatial spillover effects with panel data from Chinese cities. Sustainability, 2023, 15, 13835. （SCIE/SSCI）




Quanrun Chen, Yuning Gao, Chen Pan, Dingyi Xu, Kun Cai, Dabo Guan, Qi He, Shantong Li, Wanqi Liu, Bo Meng, Zhi Wang, Yang Wang, Xianchun Xu, Peihao Yang, Meichen Zhang & Yuanqi Zhou. An interprovincial input–output database distinguishing firm ownership in China from 1997 to 2017. Scientific Data, 2023, 10, 293. (SCIE).




Zhongjue Yu, Yong Geng, Qi He, Lucy Oates, Andrew Sudmant, Andy Gouldson, Raimund Bleischwitz. Supportive governance for city-scale low carbon building retrofits: A case study from Shanghai, Climate Policy，2021.（SSCI）




Qi He, Ran Wang, Han Ji, Gaoyang Wei, Jincheng Wang and Jingwen Liu. Theoretical model of environmental justice and environmental inequality in China’s four major economic zones，Sustainability, 2019, 11:5923. (SSCI & SCIE)




Xiuxiu Zheng, Ran Wang, Qi He. A city-scale decomposition and decoupling analysis of carbon dioxide emissions: A case study of China, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019, 138: 117824. (SCIE)




Qi He, Xujia Jiang, Andy Gouldson, Andrew Sudmant, Dabo Guan, Sarah Colenbrander,Tao Xue, Bo Zheng, Qiang Zhang. Climate change mitigation in Chinese megacities: a measures-based analysis of opportunities in the residential sector. Applied Energy, 2016, 184: 769-778. (SCI)




Qi He, Hong Fang, Miao Wang and Bo Peng. Trade liberalization and trade performance of environmental goods: Evidence from Asia-Pacific economic cooperation members, Applied Economics, 2015, 47(29):3021-3029. (SSCI)




Qi He, Hong Fang, Han Ji, Siran Fang. Environmental inequity in China: A ‘Pyramid Model’ and nationwide pilot analysis at prefectures with sources of industrial pollution, Sustainability, 2017, 9: 1871. (SSCI & SCIE)




Qi He*, Han Ji, Dabo Guan, Zhifu Mi, Hongyan Zhao, Qiang Zhang. The comprehensive environmental efficiency of socioeconomic sectors in China: An analysis based on a non-separable bad output SBM, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, 176: 1091-1110. (SCIE)




Qi He, Hong Fang, Han Ji and Meng Du.Scenario analysis for low-carbon urban planning: A case of Kaiyuan in Yunnan Province of China, in S. Feng et al. (eds.), Low-carbon City and New-type Urbanization, Environmental Science and Engineering, 2014, 393-403. (EI)




Hong Fang, Qi He, Hongxia Wang, Is urbanization in favour of CO2 emissions abatement? New evidence from developing countries based on the expanded STIRPAT model, ICIM2014, The twelvieth international conference on industrial management, September 03-05, 2014, Chengdu, China. (ISTP)




Hong Fang, Qi He, Fang Zhang. Comments on Nicholas Stern's review of climate economics, Economics Perspectives, 2015(05), 97-106. (In Chinese)




Qi He, Hong Fang, Weiwei Qian, Han Ji, Wei Luo, Peng Yao. Impact of environmental regulation on export competitiveness based on ARDL model and gravity mode, Mathematics in Practice and Theory, 2015(01), 9-17. (In Chinese)




Han Ji, Qi He, Jun Gao, Zhiqiang Li. Food consumption of rural-to-urban migrant workers in Beijing: Based on LES model, Mathematics in Practice and Theory, 2015(05), 44-51. (In Chinese)




Hong Fang, Peng Yao, Hui Fang, Qi He. Investment efficiency and financing mode of environmental protection industries, Globalization, 2014(01), 97-108. (In Chinese)




Hong Fang, Qi He, Wei Luo. Research progress on the impact of environmental regulation on international competitiveness, Economics Perspectives, 2012(11), 127-134. (In Chinese)




Qi He. Evaluation of industrial competitiveness and development strategy of Hainan Province, Special Zone Economy, 2011(11), 235-237. (In Chinese)




Qi He. Influencing mechanism and countermeasures of U.S. monetary policy on global inflation- from the perspective of international monetary system reform, Economic Herald, 2011(12), 30-31. (In Chinese)

Other publications:

Research Report: Dai Xin et al., "The Outstanding Contradictions in Revitalizing Idle Assets of Assistance Projects and Local Solutions" (Information of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences [2024] Issue 14), adopted bythe General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.




Blue Book: Wang Jingmin et al.(2024), China's Carbon Emission Trading Market (2023-2024), Social Sciences Academic Press.




Blue Book: Zhongxiu Zhao et al.(2022), China's Carbon Emission Trading Market Report (2021-2022), Social Sciences Academic Press.




Research Report: Zhongxiu Zhao, Jingmin Wang, Qi He, et al., "Research on the Path to Peak Carbon Neutrality in Key Industries", December 2021, received positive comments from the main responsible comrades of the National Development and Reform Commission in China.




Lucy Oates, Zhongjue Yu, Andrew Sudmant, Qi He, Andy Gouldson and Alan David Lee, Improving energy efficiency for all: Lessons on sustainable building retrofits from Shanghai, China. Coalition for Urban Transitions. 2020, London, UK, and Washington, DC: https://urbantransitions.global/publications.




Research report: Ran Wang, Qi He, “The Belt and Road Initiative and green value chains” in “The Belt and Road Initiative and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, China Council for International Co-operation on Environment and Development, June 2019.




Research report: Chen et al. (2020), Global economy and Chinese industry under COVID-19 context.

Research Project:

Research on the National Service Platform for Responding to EU Carbon Tariffs in the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port (2024), Commissioned project by provincial and ministerial-level government departments (Office of the Comprehensive Deepening Reform Committee of the Communist Party of Hainan Province) (24HX048), Chief participant.




Research on the Sustainable Capacity Building of Hainan's Finance (2024), Commissioned project by provincial and ministerial-level government departments (Office of the Comprehensive Deepening Reform Committee of the Communist Party of Hainan Province) (24HX047), Chief participant.




Research on the Construction of financial system to realize the value of Forest and Grass Carbon Sink in Ningxia (2023), Sub-project of "Ningxia Forest and Grass Carbon Sink Measurement Evaluation and Carbon neutral Strategy Research" project, Development Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Sub-project leader.




Research on the Mechanism and Policy of Green Electricity Participation in the Market under the EU Carbon Tariff Indirect Emission Rules (2023), Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of the Ministry of Education (23YJA790087), Chief Participant.




Summary of Experience in Implementing Institutionalized Opening-up in the Hainan Free Trade Port and Strategic Enhancement Conception, Commissioned Project by Provincial and Ministerial-level Government Departments (Office of Comprehensive Deepening Reform of the Communist Party of Hainan Province) (23HX147), Chief Participant.




Measurement, Influencing factors and unlocking strategies of carbon lock-in: From the perspective of urban heterogeneity in China (2021), National Natural Science Foundation of China (72104048): Project leader.




Environmental justice in China: theoretical model, evaluation and optimization strategy (2016-2018), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Principal investigator.




Learning from the Front Runners in Urban Climate Action: Building the economic evidence base in China and Mexico (2019), work with University of Leeds, The international cooperation projects funded by the World Resources Institute (RG.EVEA.115857), Principal investigator.




Evaluation index system of green global value chain (2018), supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” in UIBE (18QD22), Principal investigator.




Global Value Chain and China's Industrial Upgrading (2016-2021), Young Academic Innovation Team Project of University of International Business and Economics (CXTD7-06), Project leader.




Comprehensive impact assessment of climate change based on C3IAM model (2016-2021),National key research and development program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Chief participant.




The impact of food financialization on food security and countermeasures in China (2020-2022), National Social Science Foundation of China (Youth project)(20CGJ023), Chief participant.




Green value chain and green “Belt and Road” (2019-2021), supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” in UIBE (TS4-17), Chief participant.




Low carbon cities in China (2014-2018), Leeds-Tsinghua CCCEP project funded by ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) in the UK, Chief participant.




Interests balance of international transfer of pollution-intensive industries in the context of global climate change: Modelling and empirical analysis (2013-2016), National Natural Science Foundation of China (general program), Participate in project design, reporting and implementation.




Export pricing strategy and regulation policy of China’s rare earth (2012-2013), National Natural Science Foundation of China 2012 (emergency projects), Participate in project design, reporting, research and conclusion, and write sub-reports.




The measurement, evolution mechanism and regulation of environmental pollution in China's import and export products (2010-2014), National Natural Science Foundation of China 2010 (71073007), Participate in closing report.




Development plan of low-carbon economy in Kaiyuan, Yunnan province (2011-2015)(2012), Beijing Environment Exchange, Participate in the investigation and survey, and report writing.




Emission reduction potential of Beijing's transportation system and the way to realize carbon trading (2012), Beijing municipal commission of transport planning, Participate in the design and writing of the main report.

Social academic work:

lReview Service for Journals: Applied Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Environmental policy and Governance;