General
Xiang Gao, Assistant Research Fellow at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary research areas include quantitative economic modeling and applications, global value chains, industry relocation, and input-output techniques. He has been awarded the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Young Scientists Fund. Dr. Gao has authored the monograph "International Industry Relocation: Measurement, Evolution, and Trends." He has published over 30 papers in leading academic journals, including <Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society> <Journal of Industrial Ecology>, <Energy Economics>, <iScience>. He received positive feedbacks from main leaders of Chinese central government and letters of commendation from Ministry of Commerce of China.


Research Areas

Quantitative economic modeling and applications, Global value chains, Industry relocation, Input-output techniques


Education

2011.9~2015.6            University of Science and Technology Beijing

                                    •    Bachelor of Science

                                    •    Major in Mathematics

2015.9~2020.7            Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS

                                    •    Doctor of Management

                                    •    Major in Management Science and Engineering

                                    •    Advisor: Cuihong YANG

2018.9~2019.9            University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

                                    •    Visiting Scholar

                                    •    Funding Resource: Chinese Scholarship Council

                                    •    Co-Advisor：Geoffrey J.D. Hewings


Experience

2020.7~2022.6            Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS

                                    •    Titled Postdoc Fellow

                                    •    National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences

2022.6~Now               Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS

                                    •    Assistant Research Fellow

                                    •    The Centre for Forecasting Science


Publications

(1)    Published Monographs:

         [1]    Gao X, Yang CH (2023). Global Industry Relocation: Measurement, Evolution, and Trends. Beijing: Science Press.

(2)    Representative Research Papers:

         [1] Gao X*, Hewings GJD, Yang CH (2022). Offshore, Re-shore, Re-offshore: What Happened to Global Manufacturing Location between 2007 and 2014? Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 15(2): 183-206. (SSCI, ABS-3, JCR-Q1)

         [2] Gao X*, Hewings GJD, Yang CH (2024). Measuring the Industry Relocation at the Macro-level. Economic Systems Research. Forthcoming. (SSCI, ABS-2, JCR-Q2)

         [3] Gao X*, Dall'erba S, Ellison B, Avelino A, Yang CH (2022). When One Cannot Bypass the Byproducts: Plastic Packaging Waste Embedded in Production and Export. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 26(4): 1460-1474. (SCI, JCR-Q1)

         [4] Lin K, Tian KL, Gao X*, Zhao Y, Yang CH (2024). Responses of China’s Cross-border Investors to Domestic Environmental Regulations. Energy Economics. 131: 107371. (SSCI, ABS-3, JCR-Q1)

         [5] Zhang ZY, Gao X, Tian KL*, Yang CH*, Wang SY* (2023). China’s Domestic Industry Redistribution Facilitates Carbon Emissions Mitigation. iScience. 26(6): 106844. (SCI, JCR-Q1)

         [6] Zhang Y, Gao X, Xu R, Yang CH* (2023). Trade Destruction and Trade Deflection: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the US Additional Tariffs. Journal of Systems Science & Complexity. 36(6): 2467-2496. (SCI, JCR-Q2)

         [7] Gao X, Xu R, Zhang Y, Zhu KF, Yang CH* (2021). The Economic Impact of Major Event Outbreak from the Perspective of Global Production Network. Journal of International Trade. 2021(7): 1-20. (in Chinese, CSSCI, Cover Article)

         [8] Gao X, Xu R, Shi YY, Yang CH* (2020). Facing the trade war, what can be enlightened from the relocation paths of China's typical manufactures. Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice. 40(9): 2203-2221. (in Chinese, EI, CSSCI)

         [9] Gao X, Xu R, Shi YY, Yang CH* (2024). Does the Industry Gradient Coefficient Correctly Reveal the Direction of Industry Relocation? Journal of Management Sciences in China. Forthcoming. (in Chinese, CSSCI)

         [10] Gao X, Tian KL, Jiang WM, Xu R, Yang CH* (2024). Co-location of vertically linked industries in the global industry relocation. Journal of Management Sciences in China. Forthcoming. (in Chinese, CSSCI)

         [11] Zhu KF, Gao X, Yang CH, Wang SY* (2020). The COVID-19 Shock on Global Production Chains and Risk of Accelerated China's Industrial Chains Outflow. Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 35(3): 283-288. (in Chinese, CSSCI)


Conferences

         [1]    Gao X, Yang CH. The Role of Digital Economy in Rebuilding Supply Chain Resilience: What Can We Learn from The Global Industry Relocation. APEC Webinar on Stabilizing Supply Chain to Support Trade and Economic Recovery (physically in-person at the UIBE Administrative Building, Beijing, China, and virtually via Zoom). 2024.10.14.

         [2]    Gao X, Yang CH. Industry relocation measurements based on WIOT and processing trade. Regional-Global Trade in Value Added Initiatives (RG-TiVA), hybrid (physically in-person at the OECD Boulogne Building, Paris, France, and virtually via Zoom). 2022.11.16 - 2022.11.18.

         [3]    Yang CH, Gao X. Industry relocation measurement and its trends during & post COVID-19 pandemic. APEC Workshop on Opportunities and Challenges for GVCs during COVID-19 Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery, hybrid (with the in-person event being in Ha Noi, Viet Nam). 2022.10.13 - 2022.10.14.

         [4]    Gao X. Global Industry Relocation: Measurement and Evolution. The 288th Lecture of the "Siyuan Forum," Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, November 10, 2023.

         [5]    Gao X. Measurement and Trend Outlook of Global Industry Relocation. 2022 Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Literature and Information Joint Sharing Program, November 18, 2022.