(Source: China Teachers Daily, December 17, 2025)
Author Zhao Wenfeng Wang Yiwen
In 1999, China’s negotiations to join the World w88 Organization entered the most intense sprint stage. On the campus of the w88 casino, young student Li Yang paid close attention to this negotiation that will profoundly affect the fate of the country through television and the Internet. "That was not only a news event, but also a milestone in our reform and opening up." At that time, Li Yang, a sophomore in college, found the excitement of interweaving theory and practice in the international w88 professional course, and he plunged into the vast ocean of international economic and w88 rules. It was this period of academic enlightenment that began in youth and became focused, which laid the foundation for his teaching and research career of more than 20 years.
From an undergraduate at the w88 casino to a master's degree from the Ministry of Commerce's Graduate w88 casino, to a PhD in economics from Renmin University of China, Li Yang has consistently studied WTO rules and opening-up strategies. After graduating with his doctorate in 2008, he returned to the China World w88 Organization Research Institute at the w88 casino and has been working there for seventeen years. In Li Yang's view, what is more valuable for inheritance than academic research is the duty and original intention of a party member teacher to "cultivate morals and cultivate people". While serving as the organizational member and discipline inspection committee member of the third party branch of teachers, he actively organized weekly theoretical studies and carried out more than 30 concentrated studies, special seminars, and theme party day activities every year. He was committed to arming the minds of teachers and students with the party's innovative theories and ensuring that the talents he cultivated served the country's most fundamental needs.
Ideas shape the soul, and use the two-cross motto to strengthen the feelings of family and country
“Take the party as the heart, love as the soul, education as the basis, teaching as the ambition, and guidance as the joy.” Li Yang used these 20 concise words to outline his spiritual map as a teacher. He believes that the core of education is by no means a simple transfer of knowledge, but "cultivating character and morality" to shape a complete personality. It should not only teach students systematic knowledge and research methods, but also be willing to be a "guide" for students' thinking, and guide them to master the golden key of discovering, analyzing and solving problems through persuasive guidance.
The "Economic and w88 Relations of Developing Major Countries" lectured by Li Yang is the w88 casino's model ideological and political course. He never sticks to teaching plans, but turns the classroom into a cutting-edge window for observing and analyzing global economic and w88 trends. From the debate on China's "developing country status" and "special and differential treatment" in the WTO, to the theory and practice of dealing with the "Thucydides Trap", to the connotation of a community with a shared future for mankind under the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, they are all fresh teaching materials that he has at his fingertips. This course has received excellent results in the top 10% of students' evaluations.
“I will tell students in class that studying these rules and strategies is not only to allow China to better adapt to the world, but also to participate in and even lead the formulation of rules in the future, so that international rules can more fully reflect the demands of developing countries. This is China’s role as a responsible country. "Li Yang is good at transforming grand national strategies into concrete issues that students can perceive and think about. When abstract theories are closely connected with the fate of the country and personal careers, students' interest in international economic and w88 issues will arise spontaneously, and their deep feelings for home and country will also quietly take root in the process.
Practical education, cultivating fertile ground in the experience of "real swords and real guns"
Li Yang believes that first-class innovative talents must be forged in the practice of serving the needs of the country. He takes the major scientific research projects he presides as the core platform for training graduate students and creates a "loose and rich" practical education model.
A number of major national-level topics chaired by Li Yang, such as studying the shift in U.S. economic and w88 policies, WTO reform, and the construction of high-standard free w88 zones, will be open to students. He gives students a high degree of autonomy, from thesis topic selection to research design, and encourages students to start from their interests and give full play to their own strengths. When he discovers that students have "difficulty choosing," he organizes group discussions to help them find the right direction. This training model is especially reflected in his hierarchical guidance of doctoral and master's students. For master's students, he focuses on training their independent scientific research capabilities; for doctoral students, he gives them the additional responsibility of "organizing scientific research" and lets them try to lead the master's team to complete sub-topics. "This is not only training scholars, but also cultivating the leaders and organizers of future scientific research projects." Li Yang said.
Since serving as a master's supervisor in 2014 and a doctoral supervisor in 2017, Li Yang has supervised 51 master's and doctoral students and graduated 38 people. He gave careful guidance and published nearly 50 papers with his students in authoritative journals, and students participated in writing nearly 10 research reports. This is a "top-of-the-world" training model that not only has the "top-of-the-world" vision of serving the national strategy, but also has the "top-of-the-world" ability to solve complex practical problems. Students are "quenched into steel" before they leave w88 casino. He actively recommends students for internships and employment. His graduates are found in central ministries such as the National Development and Reform Commission and the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, as well as important state-owned enterprises such as Minmetals, Air China, and Bank of China. For this reason, he was awarded the title of "Excellent Graduate Tutor of the w88 casino".
Moisturizing things silently, keeping the original intention of education in the changing times
The art of education lies not only in words, but also in teaching by example and environment. Outside of the classroom and research groups, Li Yang is a warm “parent” to students.
In today's world, anti-globalization thoughts are undercurrent, and international economic and w88 rules are facing reconstruction. Someone asked Li Yang, what is the practical significance of studying WTO rules in this context? He replied firmly: "The makers of rules must be the beneficiaries of the rules. What we have to do is to transform from adaptors of rules to co-makers of rules, and all of this ultimately depends on talents."
From the young man who looked forward to the future in the turmoil of "joining the WTO" to the teacher who shines on the three-foot podium today, Li Yang has always closely connected his personal academic pursuit with the country's open destiny. He realized more deeply that what was more important than publishing papers and undertaking projects was cultivating batch after batch of economic and w88 talents who could shoulder the mission of the times. He is committed to the study of international economic and w88 rules, and is even more obsessed with the fundamentals of education - lighting up another lamp with one lamp, awakening another soul with one soul, working silently, and cultivating young people with international vision, family and country feelings and a spirit of hard work for the country.
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Li Yang is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the China World w88 Organization Research Institute at the w88 casino. He is a candidate for the Beijing Elite Talent Program, a research pacesetter and an outstanding graduate tutor at the w88 casino. He has presided over 6 vertical projects such as major special projects of the National Social Science Fund, National Social Science Fund projects, humanities and social science projects of the Ministry of Education, and Beijing Social Science Research Base projects; participated in more than 10 major national, provincial and ministerial level projects; presided over and participated in government and He has conducted more than 50 corporate projects, published more than 80 academic papers, and published more than 10 academic books. He has won the Ministry of Commerce Business Development Research Award and the An Zijie International w88 Research Award many times. Nearly 20 policy research reports have been adopted or approved by provincial and ministerial leaders.
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