Xi Ji, Peking University School of Economics Tenured Associate Professor/Senior Researcher
Phone：010-62755283
E-mail：ixi@pku.edu.cn
Address：Room 422, Peking University School of Economics
Profile
Serves as Director of the Peking University Center for Economic and Human Development, Deputy Director of the Department of Resource and Environmental Economics, and Director of the Peking University Digital Economy and Blockchain Engineering Laboratory. Holds positions as Board Member of the International Society for Ecological Economics. Research areas include Ecological Economics, Environmental Economics, Biodiversity, Energy and Climate Change, and Ecological Civilization Institutional Innovation. Recognized on the World's Top 2% Scientists. Published over 50 academic papers. Author and co-author of several monographs; translator of Herman Daly's From Uneconomic Growth to Steady State Economy. Served as Chief Economist for a National Social Science Fund Major Project, and Principal Investigator for multiple national-level research projects. Research outcomes have received awards such as the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Second Prize and the Municipal Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement First Prize. Editorial roles include Editor for Ecological Economics and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Section Editor-in-Chief for Social Sciences, Associate Editor for Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and Economia Politica, and Editorial Board Member for Environments and Economic Geography.
Work Experience
2010-2012 Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Peking University
2012-2022 Associate Professor, School of Economics, Peking University
2022-Present Tenured Associate Professor/Senior Researcher, School of Economics, Peking University
Research Interests
Ecological Economics
Environmental Economics
Economic Studies on Biodiversity
Energy Transition and New Energy Policy
Sustainable Measurement under Limited Substitution
Ecological Civilization in China
Teaching Courses
Undergraduate
Ecological Economics
Introduction to Chinese Economy (for exchange students)
Graduate
Theory and Practice of Human Development
Advanced Ecological Economics
Executive Education
CGE and Green Finance
Energy Transition and Risk Assessment
Research
List of publications from the last five years
Ji, X.*, Long, X., Luo, X., Costanza, R.. A new index reveals a widening gap between growth and sustainable wellbeing in China. Ecological Economics, 2026, 240: 108827.
Ji, X.*, Lin, J., Ji, Q.. Biodiversity loss from land occupation: A prefecture- and county-level assessment of biodiversity footprints in China. Ecological Economics, 2025, 236: 108670.
Ji Xi* et al. Global value chain participation and trade-induced energy inequality. Energy Economics, 2022，112：106175.
Peng, K.-L.*, Kim, M.J., Huang, Z., Lai, I.K.W., Ji, X.. From holocene to anthropocene: A spacetime perspective on the ontology, epistemology, and methodology of space tourism. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2025, 64: 101304.
Ji Xi* et al. Mutual complementarity of arable land use in the Sino-Africa trade: Evidence from the global supply chain. Land Use Policy, 128, 2023, 106588.
Ji Xi* et al. Does legislation improvement alleviate the decoupling between welfare and wealth in China？Ecological Economics, 2022, 201: 107592.
Ji Xi* et al. Reconsider policy allocation strategies: A review of environmental policy instruments and application of the CGE model，Journal of Environmental Management, 2022,323: 116176.
Long, X., Ji, X.*. Economic growth quality, environmental sustainability, and social welfare in China-provincial assessment based on Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). Ecological Economics, 2019, 159: 157-176.
Ji, X.* Liu, Y., Han, M., Meng, J.. The mutual benefits from Sino-Africa trade: Evidence on emission transfer along the global supply chain. Journal of Environmental Management, 2020, 263: 110332.
Ji, X.*, Long, X. A Review of the ecological and socioeconomic effects of biofuel and energy policy recommendations. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, 61: 41-52.
Ji, X.*, Liu, Y., Meng, J., Wu, X.*. Global supply chain of biomass use and the shift of environmental welfare from primary exploiters to final consumers. Applied Energy, 2020, 276: 115484.
Ji, X.*, Luo, Z.. Opening the black box of economic processes: Ecological Economics from its biophysical foundation to a sustainable economic institution. The Anthropocene Review, 2020, 7(3): 231-247.
Ji, X., Han, M.*, Ulgiati, S.*. Optimal allocation of direct and embodied arable land associated to urban economy: Understanding the options deriving from economic globalization. Land Use Policy, 2020, 91: 104392.
Ji, X.*, Yao, Y.X., Long, X.L.. What causes PM2.5 pollution? Cross-economy empirical analysis from socioeconomic perspective. Energy Policy. 2018, 119: 458-472.
Long, X.L., Ji, X.*, Ulgiati, S.. Is Urbanization eco-friendly? An energy and land use cross-country analysis? Energy Policy. 2017, 100: 387-396.
Ji, X.*, Ren, J., Ulgiati, S.. Towards urban-rural sustainable cooperation: Models and policy implication. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, 213: 892-898.
Ji, X.*, Chen, B.*. Assessing the energy-saving effect of urbanization in China based on stochastic impacts by regression on population, affluence and technology (STIRPAT) model. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017, 306-314.
Wu, X.D., Guo, J.L., Li, C., Chen, G.Q.*, Ji, X.*. Carbon emissions embodied in the global supply chain: Intermediate and final trade imbalances. Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 707: 134670.
Wu, X.D., Guo, J.L., Ji, X., Chen, G.Q.*. Energy use in world economy from household-consumption-based perspective. Energy Policy, 2019, 127: 287-298.
Wu, X.D., Ji, X., Li, C.H.,Xia, X.H., Chen, G.Q.*. Water footprint of thermal power in China: Implications from the high amount of industrial water use by plant infrastructure of coal-fired generation system. Energy Policy, 2019, 132: 452-461.
Selected Chinese Publications
Ji Xi. The modernization of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature is an important pathway for China's ecological civilization transformation. Ecological Economy. 2023(4).
Ji Xi, Xiong Lei. A preliminary study on the compilation of a balance sheet for China's petroleum resources. China Population, Resources and Environment. 2017(6).
Ji Xi, Liu Yangxuan. A preliminary technical framework for compiling a balance sheet of mineral resources. China Population, Resources and Environment. 2016(3).
Ji Xi, Wang Xiaolin. Carbon finance innovation and "low-carbon poverty alleviation". Issues in Agricultural Economy. 2012(1), 79-88.
Ji Xi, Liu Minquan. City, People, and Environment------A summary of the international seminar "Sustainable Development of Cities". Economic Science. 2011(1).
Ji Xi, Liu Minquan. Viewing the inevitability of urbanization from the perspective of human development. Journal of Nanjing University (Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences). 2010.
Zhou Hongchun, Ji Xi. The evolution of China's environmental protection policies during 30 years of reform and opening up. Journal of Nanjing University (Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences). 2009. 46(1), 31-40.
Ji Xi, Li Gang. Promoting the revival of ecological economics in China, assisting the construction of ecological civilization in China------Summary of the first International Conference on "Ecological Economics and Ecological Civilization". Ecological Economy. 2020(6).
Liu Yifang, Yang Yucong, Ji Xi. Environmental-economic-social system analysis of the PM2.5 issue in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Scientific Decision Making. 2020(3).
Ji Xi. Discipline review of resource economics. China Economics Yearbook 2010. China Social Sciences Press. 2011.
Selected Newspaper Articles
New Trends in Global Climate Finance. People's Daily. Nov 2, 2011 (Page 22) International (Economic Perspective) Section.
Wolves, Sheep, How to Choose? People's Daily. Dec 21, 2008.
Translated Books
From Uneconomic Growth to Steady State Economy by Herman Daly. China Renmin University Press. March 2020.
Selected Book Chapters & Contributions
Xi Ji. (2023) As a contributor of Dictionary of Ecological Economics. Edited by Brent M.Haddad and Barry D. Solomon. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Xi Ji. (2020). Ecological economics in China: from origins, to inertia, to rejuvenation. In Costanza, R., J.D. Erickson, J. Farley, and I. Kubiszewski (editors). Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham: 61-89.
Park City Development Report (2020)------A New Development Paradigm* (Pan Jiahua, Chen She, Editors). Social Sciences Academic Press. Nov 2020. (Editorial Board Member).
Ji Xi, Wang Xiaolin. Opportunities, Challenges and Policy Recommendations for Low-Carbon Poverty Alleviation. In Research on Public Policies for Pro-Poor Growth (Compiled by China International Poverty Alleviation Center). China Financial & Economic Publishing House. 2012.
China Development Report 2010: Promoting Human Development in China's New Urbanization Strategy. People's Publishing House. 2011.
Selected Research Grants
Principal Investigator
2023.01-2025.12 National Social Science Fund Major MG Special Project, Global Energy and Energy (No. 22VMG017)
2020.01-2023.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project, Opening the Black Box of Economic Processes: Construction and Practice of the "Economic Deconstruction Model" in Ecological Economics (No. 71973008)
2016.12-2020.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project, The Optimal Scale of Urban Economy under Ecological Constraints: Theoretical Model and Practice (No. 71673014).
2014.12-2016.12 Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Fund Project, Assessment and Simulation of the Ecological Effects of Urbanization: Models and Empirical Research (No. 14YJAZH037).
2013.06-2015.06 National Key Technology R&D Program, Research on Land Allocation and Regulation Technology for Industrial Upgrading and Structural Adjustment (Project No. 2013BAJ13B03), Sub-project Leader.
2014.12-2016.12 National Social Science Foundation Key Project, Research on Making the Market Play a Decisive Role in Resource Allocation and Giving Better Play to the Role of the Government (No. 14AZD010), Sub-project Leader.
2009.09-2010.07 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation First Class Funding, Research on System Ecological Accounting and Regulation Mechanisms for Resource and Environmental Issues (No. 20080440005).
2009.11-2010.07 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special Funding, Urban Crisis Management and Ecological Regulation Based on Environmental Accounting (No. 200902016).
2014.12-2016.12 Asian Development Bank, Market-based Eco-compensation Mechanisms in Beijing (ADB TA 8471-PRC), Sub-project Leader.
2011.07-2012.07 National Population and Family Planning Commission, National Population Development Strategy Research Project: Research on Supporting Population Policies for the Construction of Major Function Zones.
2010.01-2012.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Project, Unified Accounting, Simulation and Regulation of Urban Resources-Economy-Environment (No. 70903005).
2010.01-2012.12 Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Research General Project, Urban Carbon Emission Measurement and Assessment System for Low-Carbon Cities (No. 09YJCZH005).
2021.01-Present Ant Group Research Institute, Adjustment of Economic Decision-making and Business Model Changes of Micro-entities under Ecological Environment and Climate Change.
2021.06-2021.09 Chinese Academy of Natural Resources Economics, Compilation of State-owned Natural Resource Asset Reports and Balance Sheets of Owned by the Whole People, Sub-project Leader.
2018.07-2018.12 Peking University New Rural Development Research Institute, New Energy Strategy for Realizing Green Rural Development: Improving the Social, Economic, and Environmental Effects of Biomass Energy Development.
2016.12-2018.12 Greenpeace, Environmental Governance and Economic Growth.
2015.12-2016.12 DesTAO Education Group, Research on the Compilation of the Mineral Resource Balance Sheet for Sanya City, Sub-project Leader.
2011.09-2012.09 International Poverty Reduction Center in China, Policy Research on Low-Carbon Poverty Alleviation, Sub-project Leader.
Participating Researcher
2012-2014 National Natural Science Foundation General Project, Dynamic Economic Growth Based on New Energy Substitution and Traditional Depletable Energy Breakthroughs: Theoretical Models and Policy Design (No. 71173006).
2010.01-2012.12 National Natural Science Foundation, The Impact Mechanism of Environmental Pollution on Health Human Capital: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Test (No. 70903006).
Selected Recent Academic Presentations
2017 "ISEM 2017 Global Conference", Plenary Speech, "The pulse of urban economy under the ecological constraint", Jeju Island, South Korea.
2017 the Biennial International Workshop "Advances in Energy Studies", Parallel Session Report, "What causes PM2.5 pollution? Cross-economy empirical analysis from socioeconomic perspective", Napoli, Italy.
2018 "The First Biophysical Economics Conference in China", Organizer, Host, Beijing, China.
2019 "Ecological Economics and Ecological Civilization International Forum", Organizer, Host, Speaker, "How to promote the institutionalization of Ecological Economics", Beijing, China.
2020 "China Ecological Economics Annual Conference", Invited Report, "Opening the black box of economic processes: from biophysical foundation to social institutional superstructure", Beijing, China.
2020 "China Ecological Civilization Construction Forum", Keynote Speech, "The historical logic and future agenda of promoting ecological civilization transformation in China", Zhengzhou, China.
2021 "Reimagining The Next Economy: Embedding human, natural, community and digital values", Panel Discussion.
2021 "Global Climate Change and China's Action Plan (Beijing) Forum", Keynote speech, "Synergizing ecological civilization transformation, optimizing domestic economic structure, enhancing China's position in the global value chain------A preliminary exploration of the trinity carbon neutrality path", Beijing, China.
2021 "International Symposium on Sustainable Development and Genuine Progress", Plenary Speech, "Decoupling welfare and growth: Evidence, principles, and countermeasures", Zhuhai, China.
2021 "5th Doctoral Forum on Socialist Ecological Civilization and Social-Ecological Transformation", Plenary Speech, "Ecological Economics and Ecological Civilization Economy", Beijing, China.
2021 "Boao Global Youth Art Education Forum", Invited Report, "Respecting the Intrinsic Value of Life".
2022 "Socialist Ecological Civilization Economy" Thematic Group Third Meeting & "China Socialist Ecological Civilization Research Group" 2022 Annual Conference, Keynote.
2022 China University of Petroleum "Towards Carbon Neutrality: Actions and Challenges" Carbon Neutrality and Energy Innovation Development Forum, Parallel Session Report, "Steady-State Economy and Its Implications for Achieving Dual Carbon Goals in China".
Apr 13, 2023 Chinese Academy of Natural Resources Economics, Special Lecture on Social Science Fund Application.
May 22, 2023 Attended the founding meeting of the China Land Science Society Regional Strategy Young Scholars Elite Group at the Macau University of Science and Technology and delivered a report.
May 19, 2023 Delivered keynote report at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar.
Jun 13-17, 2023 The 6th International EcoSummit, Building a sustainable and desirable future: adapting to a changing land and sea-space. Panelist.
Jul 2023 Delivered keynote report at the 2023 Annual Academic Conference of the Theoretical and Development Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Ecological Economics & Seminar on Mechanism for Realizing the Value of Ecological Products.
Sep 12, 2023 CPC Central Committee Propaganda Department Thematic Seminar.
Sep 27, 2023 Delivered keynote report at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Environmental Economics Branch of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences.
2023 As a member of the International Society for Ecological Economics Council, assisted in organizing the China Session at the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics.
Nov 16, 2023 Delivered keynote report at the 2nd High-End Forum on Natural Resources Strategy Development.
Nov 18-19, 2023 Delivered keynote report at the 3rd International Academic Conference on "Global Climate Response and Carbon Neutrality------Energy Transition and Ecological Governance".
2023 Delivered keynote report at the Annual Forum of the Forestry Economics Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Ecological Economics.
China Credit 4.16 Summit Forum & 2023 Dagong International Annual Forum, participated in the thematic seminar on Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) and Social Credit System Construction.
May 2023 Peking University School of Economics "Jing Shi Ji Min" Forum, Xin County, Henan, Keynote.
Jul 2023 Peking University School of Economics "Jing Shi Ji Min" Forum, Tieli County, Heilongjiang, Keynote.
Sep 2023 Peking University School of Economics "Jing Shi Ji Min" Forum, Shayang County, Hubei, Keynote.
Apr 12, 2024 Northwest A&F University School of Economics and Management "Houji Dajiangtang", Speaker.
2024 China Ecological Civilization Construction · Kunming Forum. Keynote Report.
International Symposium "Ecological Civilization Construction in China and the Contemporary World" (Peking University). Plenary Session Chair.
Jul 7, 2024. The Centenary Celebration of the Birth of Howard Thomas Odum & Youth Academic Workshop (Beijing Normal University). Keynote.
Renmin University of China Mingde Environment Academic Forum. Speaker.
May 25, 2024 The 5th Economic Geography Outstanding Young Scholars Development Forum (Nanjing Agricultural University). Keynote.
Apr 19-20, 2024. 2024 YES Guangzhou Forum. Roundtable.
May 2024. Nanjing University School of the Environment. Academic Report.
Oct 2024. The 4th Environmental Economics Frontier Forum "Environmental Economics + X". Invited Report.
Nov 2024. Global Donut Days. Global Academic Conference. Keynote.
Nov 2024. Peking University First Agricultural and Development Economics Mid-Career Academic Frontier Seminar. Keynote..
Dec 2024. EcoSummit 2024. Session Chair + Report.
Dec 2024. Jingyuan Jingshi Forum (Jiaozuo Station). Keynote.
May 16, 2025, Conference on "Frontiers in Teaching and Research of Resource and Environmental Economics under the Background of Big Data".
Jun 24-27, 2025, 18th International Society for Ecological Economics Global Conference, delivered a speech at the parallel session and the closing ceremony.
Jul 5-7, 2025, served as a special guest at the Guiyang Ecological Civilization Forum.
Jul 6, 2025, participated in the Annual Academic Conference of the Chinese Society of Ecological Economics Theory and Development Committee, delivered a keynote speech, and served as host for the Sino-foreign academic roundtable forum.
Oct 18, 2025, attended the "Modernization of Ecological Environment Governance System and High-Quality Development of River Basins" Academic Seminar & "Energy and Ecological Economics" Discipline Construction Seminar.
Nov 1, 2025, attended the "SME Development Academic Forum (2025)" and delivered a speech.
Selected Awards and Honors
Tthe World's Top 2% Scientists,2022,2023,2024
Outstanding Paper Award, The 5th Economic Geography Outstanding Young Scholars Development Forum. Economic Geography Editorial Office. 2024.
15th Outstanding Pishu Award - Outstanding Pishu Report, 2024.
Best Advisor Award, 9th National University Student Energy Economics Academic Creativity Competition, 2023.
Peking University Teaching Excellence Award, 2023.
National Natural Science Foundation General Project rated "Excellent".
Chengdu 15th Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement First Prize, 2022.
Economic Science Outstanding Reviewer, 2020.
Peking University School of Economics Individual Contribution Award, 2019.
Peking University School of Economics Teaching and Research Contribution Award, 2018.
China Petroleum Science Top Ten Paper Award, Jul 2018.
Henan Province Science and Technology Progress Award .
Peking University Teaching Excellence Award, Dec 2015.
Peking University Young Faculty Teaching Competition Third Prize.
Peking University Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow, Dec 2009.
Academic and Social Service
Jul 2025-Present Social Sciences, Section Editor-in-Chief.
2024-Present Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Editorial board.
2024.05-2028.05 Economic Geography Journal, Youth Editorial Committee Member.
2024.06-2027.06 Peking University 12th Degree Evaluation Committee Theoretical Economics Subcommittee Member.
2023.01-2027.01 Ecological Economics, Editor.
2022.10-Present Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Associate Editor.
2022.04-Present Economia Politica, Associate Editor.
2023.11-Present Environments, Editorial Board.
2023.01-Present Ecological Economy, Social Sciences, Editorial Board.
2023-2028 China Land Science Society Regional Strategy Young Scholars Elite Group Member.
2023.01-present International Society for Ecological Economics, Board Member.
2024.06-present Peking University 13th Degree Evaluation Committee Theoretical Economics Subcommittee Member.
2018.09-Present Peking University School of Economics Graduate Teaching Committee Member.
2017.09-2018.09 Peking University School of Economics Undergraduate Teaching Committee Member.
2017.01-2018.01 Peking University School of Economics Academic Luncheon Series Convener and Host.
2021.01-Present Peking University School of Economics "Ecology, Environment and Climate Economics" Workshop Convener and Host.
2020.01-Present Ecological Economy, Editorial Board.
2016.09-Present Peking University School of Economics, Department of Resource and Environmental Economics, Deputy Department Chair.
2025.07-Present Peking University Center for Economics and Human Development, Director.
2019-Present Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Economics Branch, Committee Member.
