Ye Jingzhong is a Professor of Development studies and Deputy Dean at College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD), China Agricultural University. He holds a PhD degree in Social Sciences from Wageningen University. He was engaged in a range of rural project interventions as a development practitioner from 1988 to 1998, since then has focused his professional career on action researches and academic researches in the area of development studies. His research interests include: development intervention and rural transformations, agrarian sociology, rural politics, rural social problems, rural left-behind population, rural education.

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