SONG Yang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Economics of Renmin University of China, Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University, deputy director of the Common Wealth Institute of Renmin University of China, and a Distinguished Scholar of Renmin University of China. He is also the associate editor of China and World Economy. His research interests include development economics and labor economics. His major works include Current Situation and Reform Measures of China's Income Distribution Patterns: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Based on the Labor Market; Labor Economics; “Hukou-based labor market discrimination and ownership structure in urban China,”; “What should economists know about the current Chinese hukou system?”; “Rising Chinese Regional Income Inequality: The Role of Fiscal Decentralization.”