Research Area

Water management, policy and institution; Economics of climate change; Rural environmental policy. 

Short Bio

Director of China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP) at Peking University (PKU), Professor at the School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences at PKU, “Distinguished Boya Professor” at PKU, Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the National Natural Science Foundation in China. The “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” in the applied economics in 2020, 2021 and 2022 issued by the Elsevier, some papers have been cited in the working group II report in the AR6 of IPCC, honored “Distinguished Moral Education Prize during 2021-2022 of Peking University” and “Distinguished Teacher Awards of ICBC Fellowship in 2022 of Peking University”. She has been consultant for more than 10 international and domestic organizations (such as UNDP, World Bank, ADB, ACIAR, Ministry of Water Resources in China and Ministry of Finance in China), she is invited as the member of the Water Resources Standardization Expert Committee of the Ministry of Water Resources, the editorial board member of several domestic and international Journals. Her research focuses on water management, institution and policy, climate change economics, rural environmental policy and rural transformation. She has led more than 40 domestics and international cooperation projects, such as projects funded the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Distinguished Young Scholar project, key project, international cooperation project) and projects funded by Ministry of Science and Technology. She has published more than 210 papers in both domestic and international journals, 7 Chinese and English books; she has submitted more than 30 policy briefs to General Office of the State Council and relevant Ministries. She has initiated the textbook series of the “Modern Agricultural and Management Economics”, and the co-author of the first textbook “Adaptive Irrigation Management under Changing Environment”. Some of her PhD Candidates honored the National Scholarship, Distinguished Graduate of Beijing, Distinguished Graduate of Peking University. 

Selected Publications

1.  Wang, Jinxia*, Yuting Jiang, Huimin Wang, Qiuqiong Huang and Hongbo Deng, 2020. Groundwater irrigation and management in northern China: status, trends, and challenges, International Journal of Water Resources Development, Vol.36, No. 4 (2020): 670-696.

2.  Wang, Jinxia*, Yanrong Li, Jikun Huang, Tingting Yan and Tianhe Sun, 2017. Growing Water Scarcity, Food Security and Government Responses in China; Global Food Security, Volume 14, September 2017: 9-17, 10..1016/j.gfs.2017.01.003.

3.  Huang, Qiuqiong, Jinxia Wang and Yumin Li, 2017. Do Water Saving Technologies Save Water? Empirical Evidence from North China, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 82: 1–16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2016.10.003.

4.  Wang, Jinxia*, Lijuan Zhang and Jikun Huang, 2016. How could we realize a win–win strategy on irrigation price policy? Evaluation of a pilot reform project in Hebei Province, China, Journal of Hydrology, 539:379-391; doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.036.

5.  Wang, Jinxia*, Sabrina G S A Rothausen, Declan Conway, Lijuan Zhang, Wei Xiong, Ian P Holman and Yumin Li, 2012. China’s Water–energy Nexus: Greenhouse-gas Emissions from Groundwater Use for Agriculture, Environmental Research Letter 7, 014035.

6.  Wang, Jinxia*, Qiuqiong Huang, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle, 2016. Managing Water on China's Farms: Institutions, Policies and the Transformation of Irrigation under Scarcity, Elsevier. (English)

7.  Wang, Jinxia*, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and Lijuan Zhang, 2009. The Impact of Climate Change on China’s Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, 40, 323–337.

8.  Wang, Jinxia*, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle, 2000. Property Right Innovation and Groundwater Irrigation Management, Journal of Economic Research, No (4),2000.

Courses Taught at Peking University

Advanced Natural Resource Economics; Economy of Water Scarcity and Policies