2026年2月19日
上午 9:00 - 上午10:30 EST
地址: Online Zoom Webinar
National education is a critical component to building a workforce to drive economic progress and development. China has invested significant resources into expanding education both in terms of access, as well as volume, increasing the number of institutions. This government expenditure seems to be paying off with Chinese universities climbing global rankings as they generate more and higher quality research. How has the Chinese education system—notably its notorious national college entrance exam—evolved over time? How have parental choices around education changed? Join Ruixue Jia and Siqi Tu in conversation with Ning Leng about the latest trends in Chinese education.
This is event is sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues.
Featuring
Ruixue Jia is a professor of economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego. She serves as co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, co-director of the China Data Lab, and co-chair of the China Economic Summer Institute (CESI). Her research lies at the intersection of economics, history, and politics, examining how power structures evolve and shape economic development. She is coauthor of The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China (2025), a new book on how China’s education system affects and reflects society.
Siqi Tu is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her work investigates the global mobility of young people, transnational elite education, and the political economy of urban and community development. Her forthcoming book, Destination Diploma: How Chinese Upper-Middle Class Families ‘Outsource’ Secondary Education to the United States (under contract with Columbia University Press), examines urban upper middle-class Chinese families who send their children to U.S. private high schools and shows how fragile cosmopolitan aspirations reveal the limits of elite flexibility in a shifting world.
Ning Leng (moderator) is an assistant professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. For the 2025-2026 academic year, she is a Wilson China Fellow at the Wilson Center. Her research examines how nondemocratic institutions create unintended consequences in state-business relations and development outcomes, including public service provision, infrastructure building, and environment policymaking. Her area of focus is China.