Professor, Center of Hong Kong Macau and Pearl River Delta Development Studies, Sun Yat-Sen University.

  Dr. Yanhua Mao currently serves as an economics professor of the center of Hong Kong Macau and Pearl River Delta Development Studies, Sun Yat-Sen University, and the director of the Belt and Road and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau International Collaborative Research Center. He also serves as member of the academic committee of Guangdong Maritime Silk Road Institute and academic committee of the Collaborative Innovation Center of China Pilot Free Trade Zone (CICFTZ). His primary research interests include international trade, regional economics, and the economics of Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta. He enjoys a high reputation in the research areas of Chinese Open Economy and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau regional economic cooperation. He has won the An Zijie Award for International Trade Research and the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Science of Guangdong Province.