Hi! I am a first-year DPhil student in Economics with research interests in Trade, Development Economics, and Spatial Economics.

My main research focuses on structural transformation in developing countries, with a particular focus on China and Sub-Saharan Africa. I study how this transformation is shaped by external trade shocks and the spatial linkages through trade and migration across regions. My current project examines the heterogeneous impacts of WTO accession on local manufacturing economies in Chinese counties.

I completed my MPhil in Economics also at Oxford, and my bachelor's degree at Peking University. I was born and raised in Dezhou, a lovely small city in the heart of the North China Plain.

How to pronounce my name: roughly "Ching-Yu".