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Yuan Ren

Yuan Ren

Professor of Population and Urban Studies 
School of Social Development and Public Policy 
Institute of Population Research 
Fudan University, 
E-mail: yren@fudan.edu.cn

Yuan Ren (1972- ), PhD, Professor at Fudan University's School of Social Development and Public Policy, and at Institute of Population Research (IPR). He was a board member of International Sociology Association (ISA) Urban and Regional Sociology Research Committee (RC21) （2014-2018）, and board member of Urban Governance for Sustainable Cities Network (UGSCN)(2013-2015). He is steering committee member of Urban China Research Network (UCRN). He is Fellow of New Century Excellent Talents, awarded by Chinese National Education Commission (2012). 

Prof. Ren received his Ph.D. in Economics from Fudan University in 1999 and since then he has been teaching at the school. He was promoted to full professor in 2006. He has been visiting fellowships at University of Aberdeen in the UK by British Council (2000), post-doctoral research associate at University of Illinois at Chicago (2002), and visiting researcher at the International Center for the Study of East Asian Development in Japan (2006). He has been Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown Univerity (2015-2016). His main research interests include population, urbanizaiton and social development, and his research covers population and development, migration and urbanization, aging studies, employment and labor market, welfare institions and social development, social work and social policy, urban affair and urban governance, urban sustainablity, and so on, with a primary focus on China. 

Prof. Ren was the editor of Historical Lessons: Chinese Population Development Report (1949-2018) (Beijing: 2019), co-editor of Greening China's Urban Governance (Springer: 2019); author of China's Next Urbanization (Shanghai: 2017), author of Post-Demographic Transition (Shanghai: 2016); co-editor of Reshaping Welfare Institutions in China and the Nordic Countries (Helsinki & Shanghai: 2014); co-author Migration and Urbanization in Contemporary China (Shanghai: 2013); author of Temporary Migrants'Living Patterns and Their Social Integration in Urban China (Shanghai: 2012), co-editor and contributor of The Era of Global City-Regions (Shanghai: 2009), author of Employment in Transition Society: Community-based Employment and Social Policies (Shanghai: 2007), editor and contributor of Chinese Informal Employment Report (Chongqing: 2007), and et al. He also has published a score of articles in such journals as Journal of East Asian Studies, Globalizagtions, International Planning Studies, International Journal of Health Policy Management, Chinese Journal of Population Science, Social Science in China, Sociological Research, Population and Economics, Population Studies, Chinese Population, Resource and Environment, and several edited books.

Visiting Experience

● Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology and Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University (2015–2016)
● Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago (2002)
● Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen (2000)
● Visiting Scholar, East Asian Development Institute, Japan (2006)

Academic Affiliations

● Vice Chairman, Professional Committee on Migration Sociology, Chinese Sociological Association (2017– )
● Editorial Board Member, Urban and Rural Planning (2016– )
● Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Population Studies
● Management Committee Member, Urban China Research Network (UCRN) (2012– )
● Member, Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Sociology, International Sociological Association (2014–2018)
● Committee Member, EU-China Urban Governance and Sustainability Research Network (UGSCN) (2013–2015)
● Executive Director, Shanghai Population Association (2013– )
● Member, Population Development Expert Advisory Committee (2009– )
● Academic Committee Member, Urban and Social Research Center, Tongji University (2015– )
● Distinguished Professor, Collaborative Innovation Center for Smart Urbanization, Tongji University (2013–2015)

Awards and Honors

● Has received multiple provincial and ministerial academic awards, including the National Excellent Achievements Award in Population Science, Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements Award, and Shanghai Decision-Making Consultation Research Achievements Award.
● Selected as New Century Excellent Talents by the Ministry of Education (2012).
● Awarded Shanghai New Social Science Scholar by Shanghai Federation of Social Science Circles (2012).
● Honored as Top Ten Young Demographers of China by the National Population and Family Planning Commission (2006).

Research Projects

● In the past five years, he has directed and undertaken more than 20 national, provincial-level, governmental consulting and international research projects.
● Current major projects include:
 · Research on China's Population Development Strategy in the New Era (Major Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Research Innovation Program)
 · Family-Centered Migration and Welfare Policy Research (Key Project of the National Social Science Fund of China)
 · Impacts of Emerging Technologies on Social Governance in Shanghai's Mega-City and Countermeasures (Key Soft Science Project, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission)

Publications

●Yuan Ren. Balance of Population: Exploration in the Development of a Major Country. Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2020.
●Yuan Ren. 2020. Characteristics of Chinese Population Development from 1949 to 2018, and Lessons Learned. China Population and Development Studies, 3(3): 269–281.
● Yuan Ren. 2020. Family-Centered Migration and Policy Analysis for Improving Migrant Family Welfare. Journal of Social Sciences, No. 9: 73–84.
● Yuan Ren,. 2020. Characteristics and Historical Experience of Population Development in New China. Fudan Journal (Social Sciences Edition), No. 2: 156–163. (Reprinted in Xinhua Digest, 2020, No. 16: 14–16.)
●Yuan Ren (Chief Editor). Historical Experience: China Population Development Report (1949–2018). Beijing: Economic Management Press, 2019.
● Yuan Ren,. 2019. China's Welfare State Building. In Kuhnle, Stein, Per Selle and Sven E. O. Hort (eds.), Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue. Edward Elgar, pp. 32–49.
● Yuan Ren. 2019. Toward an Adaptive Population Policy. Nanjing Journal of Social Sciences, No. 4: 49–55.
● Yuan Ren. The Future Path of Urbanization. Fudan University Press, 2018.
● Chan, Kam Wing and Yuan Ren. 2018. Children of Migrants in China in the 21st Century: Trends, Living Arrangements, Age-gender Structure and Geography. Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 59, No. 2.
●Yuan Ren. 2018. The New Family Planning: Transformation of the Family Planning System in the Post-Demographic Transition Era. Exploration and Free Views, No. 4: 102–109.
● Yuan Ren and Wen Shi. 2017. Determinants and Effects of Return Migration of Rural Out-Migrant Workers. Population Research, No. 2: 71–83.
● Yuan Ren. Post-Demographic Transition. Fudan University Press, 2016.
● Tyner, Adam, and Yuan Ren. 2016. The Hukou System, Rural Institutions, and Migrant Integration in China. Journal of East Asian Studies, 16(3): 331–348.
● Xiangming Chen, and Yuan Ren. 2016. Modernity and Globalization: The Local and Global Sources of Individualistic and Materialistic Values in Shanghai. Globalizations, 13(1): 16–31.
●Yuan Ren. 2016. Urban Ills or Urban Renewal: Social Governance of Migrant Populations in Urban Villages of Mega-Cities. Internal Manuscripts of Social Sciences in China, No. 3: 58–73.
● Yuan Ren. 2016. Transformation of China's Population Structure and the Construction of a New Population Development Strategy. Academia Bimestris, No. 1: 76–81.
● Yuan Ren. 2016. Upgrading of Urbanization and New-Type Urbanization. Urban Planning Forum, No. 2: 66–71.
●Yuan Ren, Dan Chen and Yang Xu. 2016. Reconstructing the Relationship between Natives and Migrants: Urban Development and Social Integration of Floating Population. Fudan Journal (Social Sciences Edition), No. 2: 38–45.
● Yuan Ren. 2015. Left-Behind Children in the Era of Great Migration and Social Policies Supporting Families. Nanjing Journal of Social Sciences, No. 8: 73–78.
● Yuan Ren. Social Construction and Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects. Chongqing Publishing House, 2014.
● Kettunen, Pauli, Stein Kuhnle and Yuan Ren (eds.). Reshaping Welfare Institutions in China and the Nordic Countries. Fudan University Press, 2014.
● Kettunen, P., S. Kuhnle and Y. Ren (eds.). 2014. Reshaping Welfare Institutions in China and the Nordic Countries. Helsinki: Unigrafia Oy.
● Y Ren. and P. Berg. 2014. Developing and Branding a Polycentric Mega-city: The Case of Shanghai. In Per Olof Berg and Emma Bjorner (eds.), Branding Chinese Mega-cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning. Edward Elgar, UK & USA.
● Yuan Ren. 2014. Social Construction and Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects. Jilin University Journal of Social Sciences, No. 1: 59–67.
● Yuan Ren, et al. Population Migration and Urbanization Development. Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2013.
● Yuan Ren. Residence Patterns and Social Integration of Urban Floating Population. Shanghai Joint Publishing House, April 2012.
● Yuan Ren and Tao Li. 2012. Localized Social Capital and the Promotion of Social Integration of Migrant Population. Population Research, No. 5: 47–57.
● Yuan Ren. 2010. Urbanization Consisting of Both In-Migration and Return Migration. Jiangsu Social Sciences, No. 3: 108–113.
● Yuan Ren and Nan Qiao. 2010. Process, Measurement and Determinants of Urban Floating Population. Population Research, No. 2: 11–20.
● Yuan Ren, Xiangming Chen and Dieter Läpple (eds.). The Era of Global City-Regions. Fudan University Press, July 2009.
● Yuan Ren. 2008. Migration, Changes of City-region Structure and Implications for Planning Practices and Regional Development Policies in the Yangtze River Delta Area in China. International Planning Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4: 415–431.
● Yuan Ren, et al. Employment in Transition: Urban Community Employment and Social Policy Analysis. Fudan University Press, December 2007.
●Yuan Ren and Xizhe Peng (eds.). 2006 China Informal Employment Development Report: Re-examining the Labor Market. Chongqing Publishing Group & Chongqing Publishing House, 2007.
●Yuan Ren. A Study on Rural Community Development at the Village Level. Baijia Publishing House, 2001.