YAN Wenshou
Associate Professor
E-mail: yanwenshou_850812@126.com
EDUCATION
The University of Adelaide Ph.D 2017 Adelaide, Australia
Northwest A&F University Master 2012 Yangling, China
Northwest A&F University Bachelor 2009 Yangling, China
WORK EXPERIENCE
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law Faculty 2017 -Wuhan, China
TEACHING(September, 2024 - August, 2025)
Doctoral Program
•Special Research on China's Foreign Trade
•Classic Literature of International Trade
MBA/EMBA Program
•International Trade
Research Master's Program
•Research Methods of International Trade
•Research on Frontier Issues in Economics
Bachelor's Program
•China's Foreign Trade (English)
•International Economic Governance
Specialty Master's Program
•China's Foreign Trade
•Research Methodology in Applied Economics and Programming
SELECTED INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS(September, 2019 - August, 2025)
ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. A New Motivation for Sustainable Trade Between Countries with Different Regulatory Qualities, Sustainability, 2020: 1-16
2. Trade Uncertainty, Income and Democracy, Economic Modelling, 2020: 21-31
3. Agricultural Subsidies Retard Urbanisation in China, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2020: 1-20
4. The Impacts of Trade Restrictions on World Agricultural Price Volatility During the COVID-19 Pandemic, China & World Economy , 2021: 139-158
5. The Effect of China’s Domestic Public Storage on World Market Prices: The Case of Cotton, China Agricultural Economic Review( CAER), 2021
6. Can Trade Explain the Rising Trends in Income Inequality? Insights from 40 Years of Empirical Studies, Economic Modelling, 2022
7. Geographic Politics, Loss Aversion and Trade Policy: The Case of Cotton in China, The Journal of World Economy, 2022
8. Changes of Economic Structure, Interest Groups and Agricultural-Trade Protection: The Case of China, Singapore Economic Review, 2023: 1-22
9. How Can Trade Partners Be Chosen When Facing Food Scandals? China’s Milk Scandal as a Natural Experiment, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2023, 67(4): 603-635
10. Does Exporting to China Spur Firm Innovation Activities in Developing Countries?, China Economic Review, 2024, 85: 1-12
11. Basic Farmland Construction in China: A Cost-effective Investment for Agricultural Productivity and Disaster Resistance, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2024, 46(3): 1083-1102
12. The Impact of the Improvement of Shipping Capacity on Firms’ Export: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the Impoundment and Navigation of the Three Gorges Dam, China Economic Quarterly, 2024, 24(6): 1789-1815
13. Can Trade Openness Be Responsible for Rising Domestic Inflation? Insights from Three Decades of Research, Applied Economics, 2024
14. Does Trade Uncertainty Matter for The Composition of Energy Consumption?, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS ＆ FINANCE, 2025
15. Does Trade Openness Affect Educational Attainment? Insights from 25 Years of Research, Economic Modelling, 2025
16. The Direct and Indirect Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty on the Volatility of World Agricultural Prices, Journal of Asian Economics, 2025
MONOGRAPHS
1. Research on The Impact of Non-Economic Factors on International Trade and Trade Policies (Agreements), China Financial and Economic Press, 2019
2. Economics and Political Economy of Agricultural Trade-related Policies in China, China Social Science Publishing House, 2019
3. Trade Theory and Experience Analysis at the Enterprise Level, Peking University Press, 2020
4. Political Economy of Agricultural Trade Related Policies in China, World Scientific, 2020
RESEARCH AWARDS
1. 2021 Best Paper Award of China Agricultural Economic Review, National Awards for Excellence in Various Types of Scientific Research Achievements, 2022
RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. How Does the Government Respond to Fluctuations in International Agricultural Prices? Research on Inner Motivation, Coordination Mechanism and Countermeasures, Scientific Research Project by Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 2019-2019
2. Global Value Chain, Domestic Components and International Trade Policy: Analysis of Theory, Mechanism and Experience, Scientific Research Project by Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 2020-2020
3. Agricultural Trade Policy Uncertainty, Price Transmission and Welfare Evaluation: Theory, Mechanism and Chinese Experience, The Research Fund for Young Scholars by National Science Foundation of China, 2019-2021
4. A Study of Tariff Policies, Spatial Price Differences and Individual Consumption Effectson Agricultural Products Under The New Double Cycle Pattern, Scientific Research Project by Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 2023-2024
5. Research on the Trade Effects and Welfare Evaluation of Inland Waterway Shipping Capacity Improvement under the Global Value Chain Framework: Theoretical Expansion and Chinese Experience, General Project by National Science Foundation of China, 2025-2025
6. Research on the Deconstruction of Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Enterprises' Import and Export Risk Avoidance Behaviors, Post-Funded Program by Hubei Provincial Social Science Foundation, 2024-2026
TEACHING CONTRIBUTIONS
TEACHING MATERIALS
1. International Economic Governance, Peking University Press, 2024
TEACHING AWARDS
1. First Prize for Teaching Achievement Award of ZUEL: Develop a Suite of English-taught Courses to Cultivate Global Competence among Internationalized Talents, First Prize for Teaching Achievement Award of University-level, 2020
2. Third Prize of the 9th Hubei Provincial Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award: Innovation and Practice of the "Four Capabilities - Four Dimensions - Two Evaluations" Training Model for Global Competence of New Business Talents, Third Prize of Provincial Teaching Achievement, 2023
TEACHING PROJECTS
1. The First Batch of 2019 Benchmark Course Cultivation Project of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law - International Trade (Bilingual), Teaching Reform Research Project by Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 2019-2022
2. Mathematics in Economics, University-level Scientific Research Project (Teaching Orientation), 2021-2023
3. Research on the Paths to Improve the Effect of Curriculum-based Ideological and Political Education in the Course "International Trade" — From the Perspective of Heterogeneity of Teaching Objects, University-level Scientific Research Project (Teaching Orientation), 2024-2026
4. "Three-Dimensional Integration" and "Three-Digital Reform" Boost the Digital Transformation of the Training Mode for New Liberal Arts Talents — Taking Economics and Trade Majors as an Example, Project of Provincial Teaching Reform, 2025-2027