The 16th Academic Conference and the 30th Academician Conference of World Academy of Sciences kicked off in Hangzhou, Zhejiang the other day. The list of 50 newly selected academicians was released. Researcher Yang Cuihong from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Chongqing University alumna, is among the list.

Yang Cuihong, female, is a doctoral tutor of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Yang graduated from the Applied Mathematics Major, the Mathematics Department of Chongqing University and obtained her master's degree in 1996. She was a student of Professor Yin Hengyun. Her major research areas include input-output technology and economic forecasting, global value chains and trade benefits, macroeconomic analysis and policy. Yang has published more than 90 papers. Many policy research reports of Yang won favor of top officials of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the ministries and commissions. She is currently serving as Vice Chairman of the International Input-Output Association and Vice Chairman of Chinese Input-Output Association. Yang is the winner of more than 10 domestic and international awards including TWAS Siwei Cheng Prize of Economics, China Youth Science and Technology Award and Sun Yefang Economic Science Award.

The World Academy of Sciences was formerly named as Third World Academy of Sciences, or TWAS for short. It was founded on November 10, 1983, with its headquarters in Italy's Trieste. As a non-government, non-political and non-profit international science organization, it was proposed to be founded by Professor Abdus Salam, a winner of Nobel Prize in Physics.