Zheng Wang received his Bachelor of Science degree, Master degree as well as Ph.D in 1983,1987 and 1990 respectively from East China Normal University. He completed his post-doctorial research in Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993, and he has been Researcher of Institution of Policy and Management of CAS since September 1994. In 1999, he was selected into the first and second levels of “the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand of Talent Project” of Ministry of Personnel. Professor Wang mainly engaged in Computational Economics, Geocomputation, Geography Theory and Economic Dynamics. He was awarded the Third Prize of “Beijing Scientific and Technological Progress” in 2005, the Second Prize of “Shanghai Scientific and Technological Progress” in 2004, the Second Prize of “Scientific and Technological Progress for Higher Learning Institutions” by Ministry of Education in 2002, the “Outstanding Teaching Award” by the Graduate University of CAS in 1998, the “Outstanding Textbook Award” by Ministry of Education in 1997, and the Third Prize of “Natural Science” by CAS in 1996.

 

The project leader, Zheng Wang, has been committed to the research on climate change and climate protection for a long time. During 1990 to 1993, he joined in the major project of the National Natural Science Foundation named “Climate Change and Sea Level Changes in China’s Historical Period”, in which he was the key researcher on “Climate Change in Historical Period” and composed the research paper. The main contribution includes discovering the mutation sequences and phases of climate change in China’s historical period, and revealing impacts of climate change on the eco-boundary movement pattern, China’s society, population and economy. During 1999 to 2001, Professor Wang managed to finish the key project named “National Economic Security of China with Global Climate Change”, and begun to develop a systemic research on climate change. He found the emission reduction from production controlling will lead to social and economical insecurity in China. During 2000 to 2002, he was responsible for the project of National Natural Science Foundation named “Modeling on Computable Human-environmental Relationship”, in which the modeling on climate change was finished as well as the logarithm relationship between energy consumption and economic growth refuting the directly proportional relationship. As a result, the research modeled the impact of technological progress on climate change and economic growth in China and completed the macro-economic pattern of climate change in China. During 2001 to 2003, Wang took charge of the project of Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education named “Computational Analysis on the Climate Change Influence on Economy”. The historical analysis was made to discover the influence of climate change on China, and prove the infeasibility of the strategy in which the substitution of labor for energy was proposed. During 2004 to 2006, he managed the project of National Natural Science Foundation named “Theoretical Research and Policy Modeling on Climate Change with the concept of harmonious human-environmental relationship”. With mathematical proof, Kuznets Curve was recognized as the unique stationary solution for growth under the framework of new economic growth. Additionally, it is revealed that the Kuznets Curve also exists between energy intensity and growth rate with stable growth if some of the energy can be imported. The project predicted the target of energy saving and emission reduction can not be reached if the growth rate surpassed 9.6% and the optimal growth rate of 2007 should be about 10.5%. Cooperative action against climate change is prior to inaction is also one of the major conclusions. In 2006, Professor Wang attended the project of Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named “Carbon sinks management for climate change mitigation and countermeasures research for climate change adaption in China”, in which the economic influence and mitigation efficiency was evaluated. The published results and representative works are listed in the references. And the relative results also have been submitted to the State Department of China through General Office of CAS as well as the Ministry of Environmental Protection.