Wang Shuguang

Wang Shuguang, born in 1971 in Laizhou, Shandong, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Economics, Peking University. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Peking University and joined its faculty in 1998. His research covers rural finance, development finance, financial ethics, China's development strategy and economic history, and he has published more than thirty economics books, including Grassroots Finance, Financial Liberalization and Economic Development, and Inclusive Finance. In Chinese book listings, his works are often categorized under examinations and culture, with representative titles such as Inquiring into the Countryside: Rural Development, Institutional Innovation and Poverty Alleviation, Rural Finance, and Cultural China: Cultural Self-Awareness and the Development of Cultural Industries. These works show his attention both to rural development and poverty alleviation and to cultural self-awareness and cultural industries, with a scholarly rigor in their writing.