Hongwei Yu joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center as a visiting scholar for the fall of 2017.  He is an assistant professor in Institute of Quality Development Strategy of Wuhan University. His research interests focus on economic growth quality and quality competition. From 2008 to 2015, he was the research assistant of two professors and an associated professor in related fields. He has worked on four different research projects and is now presiding over two projects on regional industry quality competitiveness.  He has so far had 13 papers published or forthcoming on journals and academic conference proceedings.

He is currently working on the issues of zombie firms and corporate restructuring in China.  He has joined the Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) of Chinese manufacturing in 2015, and gained plenty of research data on this topic. Based on this data, he is putting his effort into two working papers: the statistical analysis on zombie firms in China and the study on the relationships between political connection, entrepreneurship and zombies firms.