蔡昉

Cài Fǎng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Cai Fang, prominent Chinese economist and former Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, best known for popularizing the 'Lewis turning point' thesis in China

About Cai Fang

born 1956 · 学者 scholar

Labour economist who argued from the mid-2000s that China's supply of cheap rural workers was running out and its 人口红利, the demographic dividend, was ending. A frequent voice on population and pension policy.

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

蔡昉提出中国已经到达刘易斯拐点。

Cài Fǎng tíchū Zhōngguó yǐjīng dàodá Liúyìsī guǎidiǎn.

Cai Fang argued that China has already reached the Lewis turning point.

HSK 7-9

蔡昉是中国人口与劳动经济研究的权威。

Cài Fǎng shì Zhōngguó rénkǒu yǔ láodòng jīngjì yánjiū de quánwēi.

Cai Fang is an authority on China's population and labor economics.

Tips

usage

A phrase you will meet in his work is 未富先老, 'old before rich', for a population that ages before incomes have caught up. He has even lectured on how rural China can avoid a 未富先老 trap.

usage

The character 昉 is rare - it means 'daybreak' or 'beginning.' Easy to misread as 防 or 放.

Stroke Order

蔡 Cài

昉 fǎng

蔡昉