Qiyuan XU is a senior fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is the Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and Politics at CASS and the Deputy Director of the Research Center for International Finance(RCIF). He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Northeast Normal University in China and did postdoctoral research at the CASS before starting his career at the IWEP, CASS in 2011.

His research areas include China's macro economy, China-US economic and trade issues, global supply chain and value chain issues, and development financing. He has published over 80 papers and authored 11 monographs. His notable works include "Reshaping the Global Industrial Chain: China's Choices," "Confronting the China-US Trade Conflict," and "China Financial Opening Report: Sensing the Temperature of Policies."

He serves as an advisor of the Ministry of Finance's International Affairs Expert Studio, a special invited survey expert for the "China's Economists Confidence Survey" conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, an invited researcher of the China Finance 40 Forum(CF40), and a member of the National Advanced Manufacturing Cluster 50 Forum, a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the World Bank's flagship report World Development Report.

Xiangrong Yu is Citi’s Chief China Economist, based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Citi in 2017, he was a China economist at China International Capital Corporation (CICC) for three years, advising institutional investors. Xiangrong’s earlier roles include economist positions at Hong Kong Monetary Authority and International Monetary Fund.
Xiangrong is a consistently top-ranked China economist. He was ranked No. 1 for Asia (ex-Japan) Economics research in the Institutional Investor (II) Global Fixed-Income Survey in 2023 and 2022. He was No. 2 for Economics research in the II All-Asia Survey in 2023, No. 3 in 2022 and 2021, and runner-up (ranked No. 4) in 2020 and 2019. He was part of the economics team top-ranked in the II All-China Survey in 2016 and 2015. Xiangrong was awarded Best Renminbi Bonds Research Individual by The Asset magazine in 2023.
Xiangrong holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his M.A. and B.A., both in economics, from Peking University. Xiangrong has been frequently cited by international and Chinese media, and his academic work has appeared in leading journals.