Huang Yiping

Commentaries by Huang Yiping

Huang Yiping

PKU Boya Distinguished Professor and Former Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, People’s Bank of China

Huang Yiping is PKU Boya Distinguished Professor, Dean of the National School of Development, and Director of the Institute of Digital Finance, the Peking University. Currently, he is also Deputy Secretary-General of the China Society of Finance and Banking, Chairman of the Special Committee on Fintech Development and Research of the National Internet Finance Association of China, Chairman of the Academic Committee of the China Finance 40 Forum, a member of the Chinese Economists 50 Forum, Editor of China Economic Journal, an Associate Editor of Asian Economic Policy Review, an independent director of the Ant Group and the China Life Insurance. Huang Yiping is a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. His key research interests are macro economy and financial policy.

How Should China Respond to Trump’s Tariffs?
Apr 14, 2025
US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of sweeping new tariffs on imports from more than 180 countries will be remembered as a man-made economic tsunami. Many are already comparing it to President Herbert Hoover’s 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which slashed global trade by 66% in five years and deepened the Great Depression. Trump’s tariffs – most of which have been abruptly paused for 90 days – have rattled financial markets, prompting analysts to warn that the United States could enter a recession in 2025.
Tariff War Global Trade Trade War Trump’s China Policy China’s U.S. Policy Global Economy Globalization
What Will Happen to China’s Economy in 2025?
Dec 27, 2024
China’s GDP growth slowed during the first three quarters of 2024, from 5.3% to 4.7% to 4.6%, raising fears that the country would not achieve its annual growth target of around 5%. But the latest data suggest that China’s economy is finally turning the corner.
China’s Economy GDP China’s Reform
China Must Rein in Local Governments
Aug 09, 2024
Decentralization of decision-making from the central government to local authorities is widely regarded as one of China’s most effective policy reforms of the past four decades. As the Communist Party’s priorities shifted from class struggle to economic development, decentralization turned out to be a tremendous catalyst for growth.
China’s Economy China’s Reform
China’s Evolving Miracle: Looking for Normal
Jun 14, 2024
In this interview, Professor Huang Yiping discusses with James Chau, president of the China-United States Exchange Foundation, the trajectory of China’s economy and the factors that influence it. He also discusses the end of China’s so-called economic miracle and explains why the country is now working to transition to a more normal economic growth model. Will China’s local government debt lead to a systemic financial crisis? Huang elaborates on “three perils.”
China’s Economy China’s Reform Global Economy
China’s Digital Revolution in Bank Lending
Feb 18, 2020
China’s economy is growing at is lowest rate in over 30 years, but if the country’s nearly 40 million small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) could overcome a lack of access to funding, they could become a powerful engine of economic dynamism. Can digital innovators close the SME financing gap?
China’s Reform Economic Reform