Ph.D. in Economics, Renmin University of China (1998-2001); 

M.A. in Crop Physiology-Ecology and Cultivation, China Agricultural University (1990-1993); 

B.A. in Agronomy, China Agricultural University (1984-1988).

Associate professor of environmental economics, at the School of Economics, Shandong University, P.R. China. 

Deputy Scientific Governor of Nan Shan District of Jinan City, Shandong, P.R. China (2019).

Guest associate profefssor, Soochow University, Taiwan, P.R.China (2016). 

Visiting scholar, at University of Aberdeen, UK (2013). 

International visiting professor, at Portland State University, Oregon, USA (2011,2012). 

Erasmus Mundus MESPOM Scholar, Lund University, Sweden (2009). 

Visiting Scholar, at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden (2004-2005).

COURSES Taught at Shandong  University:

     ·         Population, natural resources and environmental economics, in English

·         Contemporary China's economic reform and development, in English 

·         Ecological economics, in English

·         Game theory and information economics, in Chinese

·         Social cost-benefit analysis, in English

·         Asking the right questions: guide to critical thinking, in English

RESEARCH PROJECTS: 

2011-2014, comparative study on the environmental policy systems of China, South Korea, Japan, USA and EU countries; 

2007-2008, Research on the policy system for promoting the pilot regions for sustainable development; 

2004-2007, Study on the methods of adjusting GDP by environmental costs; 

2003-2006, Research on the methods of regional environmental valuation and accounting and the systems of indicators of green GDP in Shandong Province.

AWARDS for scientific accomplishment:

The results of the comparative study on the environmental policy systems of China, South Korea, Japan, USA and EU countries, commissioned by Department of Environmental Protection of Shandong Provincial Government, in 2011, and complished in 2014, as the first researcher, was wawrded in 2015 the Second Class Prize of of Science and Technology of Environmental Protection by the Society of Environmental Science in Shandong Province.

The results of the Research on the methods of regional environmental valuation and accounting and the systems of indicators of green GDP in Shandong Province, commissioned in 2003 by the scientific and technological plan of the Department of Environmental Protection of Shandong Provincial Government (2003-48-13), and complished in 2006, as a third core researcher, was wawrded in 2007 the Third Class Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress in Shandong Province by the Shandong Provincial Government, the Second Class Prize of Excellent Results in Soft Science by the Society of Soft Science in Shandong Province, and the First Class Prize of Science and Technology of Environmental Protection by the Society of Environmental Science in Shandong Province.

BOOK published in Chinese:

Michael Faure; and Yanqiang Ding: Environmental Law and Economics, University of Foreign Ecnomy and Business Press, 2020, forthcoming.

Ding, Yanqaing; and Wang Yan: UN National Accounting Handbook: Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting 2003 - SEEA 2003, China Economy Publishing House, January 2005.

Main ARTICLES:

A Contribution to a Co-evolutionary Theory of Economic Growth Elements - A Case from Chinese Experience. Presented at the 22nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference – Rome, May 24-26, 2017, financially supported by K. C. WONG EDUCATION FOUNDATION, HONG KONG. Chinese Journal of Shandong Social Sciences, 2017.12. 

Corporate governance responses to environmental regulation and market-based instruments, in Neils Philipsen and Guangdong Xu (editors): The role of law and regulation in sustaining financial Markets. Routlege, 2015, pp.291-321.

Empirical Test of Arbitrage Pricing Model for the SSE 50 Index Stocks. In the Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Algorithms, and Modelling, February 2018, Wuhan, China.

Quantitative Portfolio Strategy: An Empirical Analysis of SSE 50 Index Stocks Based on APT Model. Presented at the 23rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference – Bangkok, January 2018.