At 15:00 on May 21, 2018, Dr. Xiaoling Zhang from City University of Hong Kong was invited to visit CEEP and gave a talk entitled “Does Belt and Road Initiative contribute to local and global sustainability? Taking the total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) of 60 B&R countries as an example”. The report was hosted by Prof. Xin Lv, many teachers and students attended the report.
Dr. Xiaoling Zhang is a doctoral tutor, associate professor of the City University of Hong Kong, research fellow of Shenzhen Research Institute of the City University of Hong Kong, deputy secretary general of the China Construction Management Research Association and deputy director of the China Regional Sustainable Development Professional Committee. She has worked at Hong Kong University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Xiaoling Zhang attaches great importance to the integration of disciplines and interdisciplinary research. The main research directions are: sustainable development science from the perspective of big data, energy economy and management, regional sustainable development and transformation, corporate environmental management and innovation, sustainable urbanization, real estate and construction companies' sustainable competitive advantages. She has published nearly 130 SCI/SSCI academic papers at Applied Energy, Energy Policy, IJPM, etc. At present, as the project leader, she undertakes projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Hong Kong Environment Agency. At the same time, she is also the editorial board member and editor of several SCI and SSCI international journals.
In today's report, Dr. Xiaoling Zhang mainly talked about the total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) of 60 B&R countries during 1995-2015 by data envelopment analysis (DEA), investigating the conditional TFEE convergence between B&R countries relative to 15 European Union countries (EU-15) by panel quantile regression, and analyzing the change of convergence with the change in TFEE growth for relatively high- and low-income B&R countries.After the report , Dr. Xiaoling Zhang took the picture with teachers and students at CEEP together.
