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by Gregory C Chow

Dr. Hen-fu Zou’s contribution to economics education in China has been
extremely outstanding and remarkable. I first met Dr. Zou in the World Bank
in about 1995-6 when I was a consultant to World Bank on the preparation of
one of its reports on China. Dr. Zou gave me a calling card as Director of
Institute of Economics at Wuhan University. Since then I have been following
his work to promote economics education in China. His contributions include
the following.

1. In Wuhan University he established the teaching of modern economics using
textbooks similar to those used at Harvard and invited outstanding scholars
to lecture on subjects covered by these text books. I have just met a Dr.
Wei Zou (same last name, but not related) who is directing such activities
while Dr. Hengfu Zou is not in China and who has very favorable comments
about Heng-fu’s work as someone working in Wuhan and observing the progress
in house.

2. At the Guanghua School at Peking University Dr. Zou made similar
contributions by introducing reading material in modern economics and
inviting outstanding lectures to teach on a short term basis.

3. At Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Heng-fu also invited outstanding
lectures to teach and gave lectures himself for several times.

4. He found a new journal Annals of Economics and Finance which is a very
good journal that provides an outlet for Chinese economists with
specialization on topics related to the Chinese economy, in addition to
publishing good economics articles in general.

Note that all the work mentioned above requires continuous attention year
after year. It is difficult to find someone not residing in China who has
helped advance economics education in China in the last decade as much as Dr
. Zou.