Xiyi received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Hong Kong in 2015, and her B.B.A from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2011. Her current research focuses on the development of the Chinese economy, such as the effect of industrial clustering on regional growth and inequality, and firm’s green responses to government sustainability policies, etc. She has also collected information on all the English journal articles published by Chinese authors since 1956, for a series of projects to investigate China’s research and innovation.