Huijiong Wang’s research while affiliated with Development Research Center of the State Council and other places

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Publications (25)


Life and Learning as a University Student and an Apprentice Engineer (1943–1951)
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Huijiong Wang

As stated towards the end of Chap. 1, I scored high on the Shuen Grant exam and was admitted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a scholarship. I embarked on a new journey of independent life in Shanghai, the biggest metropolis in China, while pursuing college learning and making new friends. This Chapter provides details about the university I attended; my college life, learning, extracurricular activities as a freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior; my job search effort; and my life and career as an apprentice engineer at Shanghai Power Company.




Childhood, Adolescence and My Family (1925–1943)

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I was born in 1925 in China’s Shanghai International Settlement (British Concession and American Concession in Shanghai was combined in 1863 and was renamed as Shanghai International Settlement in 1899.) when China was a very poor semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. I am now 94 years old and have witnessed many social changes since then, especially the significant social changes in China since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. I have both worked and lived in the PRC for nearly 70 years.


Period of Transition from Engineering to Social Science (1980–1983)

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I was trained as an engineer and worked in the electrical engineering field for over 33 years. However, in 1980 I ventured into a new field—social science and began my new profession as a researcher and practitioner in applying and integrating policy science to China’s reform and opening to the outside world. This represented a paramount change for me in terms of work environment as well as my knowledge base. The change presented a significant challenge and at the same time a great opportunity for me. The major challenge was to expeditiously expand my knowledge base with the new knowledge and to broaden my expertise to meet the new work demand. For a well-trained intellectual in contemporary society, lifelong learning is a “must” quality for meeting the dynamic and ever-changing world. The higher education of today is expected not only to train students with the functional knowledge for specific disciplines but also to develop their how-to-learn ability for life-long learning of ever-expanding knowledge. (Unfortunately, not all institutions of higher learning seem to live up to such an expectation.) I considered my transition into the new profession a great opportunity for me to grow professionally because China as a semi-isolated country since the establishment of PRC in 1949 had much to catch up to bring it up to the norm once it opened to the world.


Works and Life in Engineering Design at Shanghai and Yunnan Province (1951–1969)

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After four years of training as an apprentice engineer, I became certified and began specializing in engineering design in 1951 and worked at this position until 1969. This period coincided with establishment of PRC in 1949, and the Recovery Period of PRC (1950–1952). In 1953, planning for development of China started in preparation and implementation of China’s First Five-Year Plan. Many new projects were constructed in this period to meet the demand of national economic and social development and engineering design was the first step in the construction and completion of projects. Demand of external environment provided a great opportunity for me to sharpen my design skills in many projects, from low level simple projects to high level complex ones. This chapter will describe my work and life in Shanghai Power Company (SPC), Engineering Department of East China Naval Headquarter at Shanghai before 1958, and my work and life in Kunming Hydropower Design Institute and Design Department of Bureau of Electricity, Yunnan Province. Regarding my life during this period, only major work and important events will be presented.


Work and Activities as a Member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Vice President for DRC’s Academic Committee (1990–2000)

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This chapter describes my work, learning and life in the period from 1990 to 2000 during which I served two terms as the member of the Eighth and Ninth Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee and since 1993 was in charge of Academic Committee of DRC as its Vice President.


Exploration of Social Systems Engineering and My Recent Life

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We come to the last chapter of this book. This book has two themes: explorations in social systems engineering and the life of an intellectual of China (1925 to the present). These two themes are closely connected. To be an intellectual, one must be educated, must work and learn throughout one’s life, and must explore or devote oneself to explore something. With myself as an example, nearly eight chapters of this book cover my work and continuous learning, which are part of the exploration process. Learning from jobs or readings, the raw materials we receive must be processed via a variety of in-depth exploration to form useful output or meaningful results.


Exploring Social Systems Engineering Through Collaboration with Various International Organizations (1990–2000)

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Most of the activities described in this chapter occurred during the same period as those in Chap. 7. However, the activities in this chapter only focused on the collaborative ones with international organizations to demonstrate how I explored Social Systems Engineering through my learning and experience in collaborating with international experts in various projects.


Work and Activities Before My Formal Retirement (2000–2009)

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During the 2000–2009 period before my official retirement in June 2009, I was actively engaged in a series of national and international projects and conferences. As stated in Chap. 7, Sect. 7.1.1, I had long passed the retirement age based on China’s official policy for civil services and was among the few to be allowed to postpone my retirement due to my expertise and extensive involvement in comprehensive, mission critical projects at national and international level.


Citations (5)


... The term Think Tanks not only defies simplistic definition but also its genesis. However, as Wang and Li (2018) would put it, the genesis of TTs is attributed to the evolution of human society from its traditional and simple agrarian society to an industrialized one even after the post-industrial society. However, global TTs emerged in the 19 th century following the establishment of the Royal United States Services Institute (RUSI) in 1831 in USA. ...

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Leveraging the Roles and Constraints of Think Tanks in Enhancing Industrialization in Tanzania
Introduction to Social Systems Engineering
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... This is largely informed by the beliefs of government officials that think tanks should serve policy objectives (Bardauskaitė, 2022). Nonetheless, as Wang and Li (2018) avers, with the rise of contemporary think tanks, made up of specialists from several fields, think tanks with less influence from government will perform better. This somewhat justifies the effectiveness of think tanks in developed and first world countries where the influence of government and government officials is minimal compared to third world countries such as Nigeria. ...

The Development of Think Tanks
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... The approach to consider the object of the research in the system analysis [22] and the research levels of the object in the general systems theory [23], which is applied to solve the problem of intelligent adaptive monitoring, allows one to formulate the general principles of the adaptive monitoring of information security of CPS, such as: ...

General Systems Theory and Systems Engineering
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... This airport development has been largely driven by rapidly growing economic development from the demand side as well as the government's strategic prioritization of aviation from the supply side, as evident in plans such as the "12th Five-Year Plan" [10]. Focused on an expanding hub-and-spoke model, major state-owned airports like Beijing Capital have experienced significant growth, with passenger throughput soaring from 8 million in 1994 to 89 million by 2018 [11]. ...

Analysis of implementation of China ' s 12th Five Year Plan and prospects of its next five years
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Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies

... Since China proclaimed interest in joining GATT in 1986, it has accepted the "Washington consensus", which is a neoliberal model of growth, as opposed to the state-led "East Asian development model" of economic development. Liberalists regard China's intent to consent to WTO regulations as long-term economic gains (Huijiong et al. 2013) and its acknowledgement of neoliberal economic ideology as support for their theories (Keohane and Nye 1987). In contrast to realism theorists, liberalists argue that China has mostly pursued foreign trade policies aligned with the status quo by accepting commitments under the WTO. ...

China’s ten years in the WTO: Review and perspectives
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Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies