Li: The best choice for life

"China Economic weekly" reporter Liu Yonggang Wang Hongju as a scholar, he used clarity and vagueness to popularize the real information to the people; as a member of the central Bank's Monetary committee, he used his knowledge to admonish the state of the matter and solve the problem to the government. As an economist, he speaks Chinese in English, and the misreading of China is being solved to the world.　　Some say he was "the Chinese economist at Harvard." But he himself said, back to the motherland, Tsinghua is his best choice in life, is the motherland, Tsinghua this stage so that he has more opportunities to communicate with peers, so that he has the opportunity to communicate with the national decision-making level, for the country, for the enterprise decision-making to make some comments.　　He is Li (micro-blog column), Tsinghua University graduates, is currently a professor of Tsinghua, Tsinghua University, China and the World Economic Research Center Director, Central Bank monetary Policy Committee members.　　Tsinghua "guinea Pigs" 1980, 16-Year-old Li Li entered Tsinghua Park, Tsinghua University, is the first undergraduate students.　　That year, just rehabilitation of Tsinghua University economy to meet the needs of economic development, recruited the first management information System professional undergraduates, because it is the first time, there is no experience to learn from, everything is the students and teachers groping, he called himself "guinea pigs." At the university for five years, it was the most beautiful and energetic period in his memory. He gets up early every day to recite English, on the day's specialized course, listens to the English broadcast in the evening, although the life is very busy, but he feels very fulfilling, very joyful.　　It seems that opportunity is provided to those who are prepared.　　On the eve of his college graduation, he was also the first year of the "Shang Study Program", where he was enrolled in the study program and was recommended to study at Harvard. Not Centia, because the project was late, and he missed the deadline for admission.　　But Professor Perkins, of Harvard University, just came to Beijing to give lectures, and he advised him to go to a visiting scholar first, and then to attend school again the following year. So, in September 1985, Li, just over 21, walked into Harvard and became the youngest visiting scholar there.　　He enrolled in the second year, studied economics at Harvard University, majored in economic theory, corporate finance and comparative economics, and became a Ph. D. in philosophy (economics) in 1992. Three times, Li has jokingly said that he has made three "irrational" choices so far on the path of life.　　His so-called "irrational" choice refers to the choice of "sticking to one's own interest, violating the principle of the great income of economics".　　The first time he was graduating from Harvard, he received an invitation from the Department of Finance at NYU and the economics Department of the University of Michigan to hire him as an assistant professor at a time when the Department of Finance had been paid a whole higher salary than the economics department, but he still chose his preferred economic research work. The second was the choice to leave the United States, when the University of Southern California invited him to join, and Xu tenure, but he had understood that in the United States to study the Chinese economy, is always a marginal discipline, he has been optimistic aboutThe academic environment and living environment of the Hong Kong University of Science and technology, and most importantly, the study of the Chinese economy in Hong Kong has become the mainstream, so he chose to teach at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for five years.　　These five years he has learned a lot and lived very happily.　　The third is that he went back to Tsinghua University after 20 years of absence, even though he knew very well that there was a gap between Tsinghua and Hkust, both in terms of working conditions and living conditions, but he felt it was a blessing to return. With the increasing influence of the mainland on the world, social science research at Tsinghua University is likely to become the mainstream topic in the world Academic circle, and the subject researchers are more likely to become the leader in a certain research field, or in China.　　To realize this is that there is no greater difficulty, he will not hesitate to choose Tsinghua and cherish the Hard-won position. An economist who dares to tell the truth, as he himself once said, "an economic scholar should dedicate his reason to the society and leave the passion to himself." We can be emotionally fluctuating in our personal lives, can greatly sad exultation, can appreciate the romantic music, in order to vent the passion, in order to calm the sadness, but in the public space, to be a rational image, to use rational discourse to discuss the problem, I think this is a serious economic scholar style. China's economic world needs such voices and demeanor, not emotional hype. "Perhaps because of this, Li's name is not yet familiar to ordinary people, but in the economic field, it is young he can be called a man." 2010, Li was elected as China's economic figure of the year; he has been among the top ten most influential economists in China, and in January 2008 he wrote in new fortune to anticipate the global financial crisis, and now he is exploring the pattern of global economic and financial crises in post-crisis times,　　Remind people to focus on the opportunities and challenges ahead. Li was low-key and reserved, not agreeing to be called "economist", saying he was only an "economic scholar". He said: "Many people think that the Chinese people do not engage in economics, no Western inspiration and intuition, will only be generalities, or will only do math skills, from childhood education is not, there is no independent social reasoning ability, so the study of the mainstream." There is a certain reason, but, if we stick to the rules, superstition, and be willing to lag behind, do not think of breakthroughs, the reality will continue forever, their judgments will become eternal. "Talking about the current debate in the domestic media about the" faction "of Economics, Li said bluntly:" I think in China's current situation, The Economist is market hype, and even the group is labeled, simply divided into left and right, often talk about who is for whom to speak, such a situation is very unhealthy, Such a debate would have a counterproductive effect on economic policy formulation. ”