Areas of Focus
- Population and Social Development
- Aging Research
- Population Migration and Urbanization
- Urban Development and Governance
- Welfare System and Social Policy
- Social Construction
- Sustainable Development Research
Work Experience
- 2013-2015 - Tongji University - Distinguished Professor at the Collaborative Innovation Center for Intelligent Urbanization
- 2015-2016 - Brown University - Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology and Population Studies and Training Center
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1993 - BA in Sociology: Fudan University
- 1996 - MA in Population Economics: Fudan University
- 1999 - PhD in Political Economics: Fudan University
Publications
- Population Balance: Exploration of the Development of a Great Nation, Yuan Ren, 2020
- Characteristics of Chinese Population Development from 1949 to 2018, and Lessons Learned, Yuan Ren, 2020
- Family-centered Migration and Policy Analysis to Improve Migrant Family Welfare, Yuan Ren, 2020
- Characteristics and Historical Experience of Population Development in New China, Yuan Ren, 2020
- Historical Experience: China Population Development Report (1949-2018), Yuan Ren, 2019
- China’s Welfare State Building, Yuan Ren, 2019
- Towards an Adaptive Population Policy, Yuan Ren, 2019
- The Future Path of Urbanization, Yuan Ren, 2018
- Children of Migrants in China in the 21st Century: Trends, Living Arrangements, Age-gender Structure and Geography, Kam Wing Chan and Yuan Ren, 2018
- New Family Planning: Transformation of the Family Planning System in the Post-demographic Transition Period, Yuan Ren, 2018
- Factors Influencing the Return Migration of Rural Migrant Workers and the Effects of Return Migration, Yuan Ren and Wen Shi, 2017
- Post-demographic Transition, Yuan Ren, 2016
- The Hukou System, Rural Institutions, and Migrant Integration in China, Adam Tyner and Yuan Ren, 2016
- Modernity and Globalization: The Local and Global Sources of Individualistic and Materialistic Values in Shanghai, Xiangming Chen and Yuan Ren, 2016
- Urban Disease or Urban Renewal: Social Governance of Floating Population in Urban Villages of Mega Cities, Yuan Ren, 2016
- Changes in China's Population Pattern and the Construction of a New Population Development Strategy, Yuan Ren, 2016
- Upgrading Urbanization and New Urbanization, Yuan Ren, 2016
- Reconstructing the Relationship between Locals and Migrants: Urban Development and Social Integration of Floating Population, Yuan Ren, Dan Chen, and Yang Xu, 2016
- Left-behind Children and Social Policies to Support Families in the Era of Great Migration, Yuan Ren, 2015
- Social Construction and the Comprehensive Building of a Well-off Society, Yuan Ren, 2014
- Reshaping Welfare Institutions in China and the Nordic Countries, Paul Kettunen, Stein Kuhnle, and Yuan Ren, 2014
- Developing and Branding a Polycentric Mega-city: the case of Shanghai, Yuan Ren and Per Berg, 2014
- Social Construction and the Comprehensive Building of a Well-off Society, Yuan Ren, 2014
- Population Migration and Urbanization Development, Yuan Ren, 2013
- Residence Patterns and Social Integration of Urban Floating Population, Yuan Ren, 2012
- Localized Social Capital and Promoting Social Integration of Floating Population, Yuan Ren and Li Tao, 2012
- Urbanization Composed of Both Urbanization and Return to Hometown, Yuan Ren, 2010
- Process, Measurement, and Influencing Factors of Urban Floating Population, Yuan Ren and Nan Qiao, 2010
- The Era of Global City-Regions, Yuan Ren, Xiangming Chen, and Dieter Läpple, 2009
- Migration, Changes of City-region Structure and Implications for Planning Practices and Regional Development Policies in the Yangtze River Delta Area in China, Yuan Ren, 2008
- Employment in Transition: Analysis of Employment Status and Social Policy in Urban Communities, Yuan Ren, 2007
- 2006 China Informal Employment Development Report: Re-observation of the Labor Market, Yuan Ren and Xizhe Peng, 2007
- Research on Rural Village Community Development, Yuan Ren, 2001
Awards
- National Population Science Research Outstanding Achievement Award
- Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award
- Shanghai Decision-making Consultation Research Achievement Award
- New Century Talent by the Ministry of Education (2012)
- Shanghai Social Science Newcomer (2012)
- China's Top Ten Young Demographers by the National Population and Family Planning Commission (2006)
