Trends and Determinants of Healthy Aging in China (PDF)

received his Ph.D. in Demography from Peking University (1997). His research areas include demography, gerontology, economics of population, and interaction between population and environment. He has been the principal investigator for over ten key projects and published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, such as "Chinese Women's Family Status: Analysis of Chinese Decennial Survey, 1990-2010," "Determinants Affecting Longevity at County Level in China," "Patterns of living arrangements of the elderly in Mainland China: changes, consequences and policy implications," etc. He authored/co-authored in over ten book chapters and books, such as "Chapter 3: Changing Patterns of Marriage and Divorce in Today's China," Isabelle and Gu, Baochang (eds.), Analyzing China's Population: Social Change in a New Demographic Era. Berlin: Springer.



Xiaoyan Lei is a professor at National School of Development and the director of Center for Healthy Aging and Development at Peking University (PKU) in China. She also serves as the deputy director of PKU Center for Human Capital and National Policy, China. She is the editor of renowned publications such as China Economic Quarterly, Journal of Economics of Aging, and Journal of Health Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2007). Her areas of research interests include labor economics, health economics, the economics of aging and applied econometrics. She has been awarded many prizes, such as "Chinese Ministry of Education Yangtze River Young Scholar, PKU Boya Young Scholar" (2019), "China Medical Science and Technology Second Award" (2018), "Excellent Research in Art and Social Science, Peking University" (2013-2014), etc. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and authored/co-authored in many book chapters and books. One of her recent co-authored paper entitled "New trends in population aging and challenges for China's sustainable development" has published in China Economic Journal in 2020.

Xiaoming Shi is a professor and the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH) at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC). He received his MD from Anhui Medical University of China (1999) and Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Health Statistics from China CDC (2005). He joined the branch of Infectious Disease Surveillance at China CDC in 2005 and then worked as the head of the Branch of Monitoring and Evaluation, Division of Chronic Diseases Control and Community Health at China CDC. Since 2015, he was appointed as the director of NIEH at China CDC. His research has focused on the determinants of health and longevity, risk assessments of air pollution, heavy metals and other environmental exposures, etc. He has extensive experiences working with numerous chronic diseases and aging studies in Chinese populations. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed journal articles and authored/co-authored in over ten book chapters and books. He is also the editor of many renowned publications such as Global Health Journal and Journal of Environmental & Occupational Medicine.