Email: sarahwang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Office: Room 208-6, Historic Buildings, Chengze Garden Campus, National School of Development, Peking University
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Jinjie Wang is an Assistant Research Professor at the National School of Development and the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies at Peking University, and Research Professor at the Asian and African Studies Division of the Institute of Country and Region Studies, Peking University. She holds a dual-PhD degree in Adult Education and Comparative and International Education from the College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University, and an MA in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University. She serves on the boards of the Chinese Association for African Studies and the Chinese Association for African History Studies, and on the editorial board of Vocation, Technology & Education. She has conducted long-term fieldwork on firms, universities and government agencies in more than ten African countries, visiting over 200 Chinese and foreign enterprises, universities and other organizations. Her publications include books, journal articles and policy briefs in both Chinese and English.
Education and workforce development; African area studies; Investment and technology transfer of Chinese enterprises
December 2020 - Present Assistant Research Professor, National School of Development and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University
March 2026 - Present Deputy Director, Center for African Studies, Peking University
January 2026 - Present Research Professor, Asian and African Studies Division, Institute of Country and Region Studies, Peking University
October 2018 - November 2020 Lecturer, National School of Development, Peking University
January 2017 - September 2018 Research Fellow, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, USA
Currently teaches Thesis Writing and Proposal Writing to master's and doctoral students at the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University. Previously taught Research Methodology and Dissertation Writing, Global Leadership, Comprehensive African Studies, and Theories and Methods in Asian and African Studies. Awarded second prize in the English-language group of Peking University's blended (online and offline) teaching competition for international faculty in 2021. Translated the research methods textbook Grounded Theory Research: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (Peking University Press).
1. Mufunda, Felix, Changhua Yu, and Jinjie Wang*. 2025. "Tobacco contract farming and poverty reduction: Zimbabwe evidence and China lessons." China Economic Journal pp.34-68. doi:10.1080/17538963.2025.2607182.
2. Jinjie Wang. 2024. Development Aid 2.0: Technology transfer and skill formation. Vocation, Technology and Education. (1), pp.1-35. doi:10.54844/vte.2024.0545.
3. Donald Cochrane & Wang Jinjie*. 2020. "Vision Without Action is Merely a Dream": A Conversation with Li Yinhe. Critical Asian Studies. Vol 52, No. 3, pp.1-18.
4. Zou Yujun and Wang Jinjie*. 2022. China-Africa Cooperation in Education and Training: The Two-Way Participation of Chinese Enterprises in Supply and Demand. Journal of China-African Studies, 2(4), pp. 99-114. (in Chinese)
5. Wang Jinjie and Peng Gaogao. 2024. "The Invisible Helping Hand": Technology Spillovers and Technology Transfer in Chinese Investment in Africa from a Human Capital Perspective. Overseas Investment and Export Credit, (4), pp. 12-15. (in Chinese)
6. Wang Jinjie and Peng Gaogao. 2025. Youth Development Pathways in Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Chinese Agri-Tech Investment in Zambia. Chinese Review of African Studies, pp. 230-248. (in Chinese)
7. Wang Jinjie. 2021. A New Wave of Chinese Capital and Africa's Demographic Dividend: A Survey of China-Africa Industrial Parks. Chinese Review of African Studies, pp. 129-155. (in Chinese)
8. Wang Jinjie, Peng Gaogao, et al. 2023. New Approaches to Human Capital Investment by Chinese Enterprises in Africa amid Multiple Crises. Chinese Review of African Studies, pp. 299-322. (in Chinese)
9. Yi Yuanyuan, Yin Jun and Wang Jinjie. 2024. New Challenges for Rural Revitalization from the Perspective of Common Prosperity. Enterprise Reform and Development, 2024, No. 2 (Total No. 14), pp. 37-42. (in Chinese)
10. Wang Jinjie. 2026. Unlocking the Capacity Dividend of the Belt and Road through Higher Education Cooperation. China Scholars Abroad, No. 8 (Total No. 438), pp. 4-8. (in Chinese)
11. Wang Jinjie. 2025. Building Cross-Cultural Influence in the AI Era: Lessons for Chinese Companies Going Global. Business Review, Total No. 240, pp. 121-124. (in Chinese)
12. Wang Jinjie. 2024. Morocco as a Key Market for China's "New Three" Exports. World Affairs. (in Chinese)
13. Liu Haifang, Li Wentao, Tang Xiaoyang and Wang Jinjie*. 2024. When Chinese Modernization Meets African Modernization. World Affairs, No. 18, pp. 12-25. (in Chinese)
14. Wang Jinjie. 2024. China-Africa Cooperation Lighting the Way for African Youth. China Scholars Abroad, No. 1 (Total No. 407), pp. 46-51. (in Chinese)
15. Xu Liang and Wang Jinjie*. 2023. Success Stories in African Economic Development. World Affairs, No. 1, pp. 19-21. (in Chinese)
16. Liu Haifang, Lin Fengmin, Sha Zongping and Wang Jinjie*. 2023. China-Africa Cooperation: Examples and Reflections. World Affairs, No. 1, pp. 21-25. (in Chinese)
17. Wang Jinjie. 2022. Africa: Embedding Ubuntu and Community Values. Entrepreneur, 2022(11), pp. 40-41. (in Chinese)
18. Wang Jinjie. 2022. China-Africa Cooperative Industrial Parks and Africa's Industrialization. World Affairs, No. 17, pp. 23-26. (in Chinese)
1. Wang Min, Xu Huayu, Zhou Yongmei, Wang Jinjie, et al. (South-South Belt and Road Research Group, eds.). 2025. Conflict and Development: Politics, Economy and Society in Ethiopia. Xinhua Publishing House. (in Chinese)
2. Li Yuan, Jinjie Wang, and Yichen Li. 2021. Facilitating Africa's Industry Development: China-Africa Cooperation in Industrial Parks. China Commerce and Trade Press.
3. Yuan Li, Li Qiyan and Wang Jinjie. 2020. Facilitating Africa's Industrialization: Exploring China-Africa Cooperative Industrial Parks. China Commerce and Trade Press. (in Chinese)
4. Jinjie Wang. 2010. Sexual Minority Students in Their Eyes: Chinese University Students' Perspectives toward Their Gay and Lesbian Peers. Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
1. Liu Haifang (Editor-in-Chief), Wang Jinjie and Mendu (Cameroon) (Executive Editors). 2025. Youth Development and China-Africa Cooperation: African Agency and Global Partnerships. The Commercial Press. (in Chinese)
2. Liu Haifang and Wang Jinjie (eds.). 2023. Opportunity amid Crisis: Africa in an Era of Profound Change. The Commercial Press. (in Chinese)
3. Liu Haifang, He Feng and Wang Jinjie (eds.). 2021. Chinese Review of African Studies (Vol. 9): "One Belt and One Continent: New China-Africa Cooperation" Field Research Special Issue. Social Sciences Academic Press. (in Chinese)
4. Yang Zhuang and Wang Jinjie (eds.). 2022. Cross-Cultural Leadership in the VUCA Era. Beijing Institute of Technology Press. (in Chinese)
1. Yang Zhuang and Wang Jinjie (trans.). 2025. Leadership Is Influence. China Industry and Commerce Press. (in Chinese)
2. Wang Jinjie (trans.), Yang Zhuang (reviewer). 2024. The Wisdom of Asking Questions. China Radio, Film and Television Press. (in Chinese)
3. Yang Zhuang and Wang Jinjie (trans.). 2022. The Five Levels of Leadership. China Radio, Film and Television Press. (in Chinese)
4.Wang Jinjie (trans.), Yang Zhuang (reviewer). 2022. Win-Win: Putting Conscious Capitalism into Practice. China Radio, Film and Television Press. (in Chinese)
5. Wang Jinjie and Zhu Mingming (trans.). 2021. Classic Grounded Theory: Applications with Qualitative and Quantitative Data. Peking University Press. (in Chinese)
1. Xiaomeng Du, Jinjie Wang, & Xiaobei He. 2026. Successful experiences, challenges, and policy expectations for Chinese firms going global under the Belt and Road Initiative. In Y. Huang & M. Wang (Eds.), China and Global South development: Economic cooperation, investment, and the "Belt and Road" (pp. 59-84). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-1503-4_4
2. Jinjie Wang. 2026. Workforce education as a driver of Belt and Road development cooperation. In Y. Huang & M. Wang (Eds.), China and Global South development: Economic cooperation, investment, and the "Belt and Road" (pp. 207-232). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-1503-4_10
3. Wang Jinjie. 2025. Workforce Education as a Driver of Belt and Road Development Cooperation. In Huang Yiping and Wang Min (eds.), Shared Development: Building a Fairer, More Inclusive and Sustainable Framework for Global Economic Cooperation, CITIC Press, pp. 233-266. (in Chinese)
4. Du Xiaomeng, Wang Jinjie and He Xiaobei. 2025. Successful Experiences, Challenges and Policy Expectations of Chinese Enterprises Going Global under the Belt and Road Initiative. In Huang Yiping and Wang Min (eds.), Shared Development: Building a Fairer, More Inclusive and Sustainable Framework for Global Economic Cooperation, CITIC Press, pp. 55-88. (in Chinese)
5. Wang Jinjie and Peng Gaogao. 2025. China-South Africa Cooperation in Science and Technology Human Resources. In Common Development: Research on South African-Style Modernization and China-South Africa Cooperation, The Commercial Press, pp. 203-236. (in Chinese)
6. Wang Jinjie. 2025. A Reference for Outbound Investment by Chinese Enterprises: Evidence from African Countries. In New Drivers of the Economy: Directions and Key Points of Deep Transformation, CITIC Press, pp. 61-72. (in Chinese)
7. Wang Jinjie. 2022. Cross-Cultural Leadership and Human Capital Development: Challenges for Chinese Enterprises Operating in Africa. In Cross-Cultural Leadership in the VUCA Era, Beijing Institute of Technology Press, pp. 51-63. (in Chinese)
Drawing on her research on South-South cooperation, public policy and African area studies, she has submitted numerous policy recommendations to her institute, the university and government agencies. Articles in major national newspapers and journals include "Africa in 2022: Risks and Opportunities amid a Positive Trend" and "Advancing High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation through Human Capital and the Capacity Dividend" in Guangming Daily, and "Promoting Common Development through Technology Transfer", "Mutual Trust: China-Africa Cooperation as a Process of Continuous Mutual Learning" and "The Warmth of China-Africa Cooperation: Entrusting the Future to Youth" in People's Daily.
Research themes: South-South cooperation, African industrialization, workforce development and education cooperation in Africa, and the international expansion of Chinese enterprises.
Has participated in projects commissioned by central ministries, industry-funded studies, university-industry collaborative research and institute-level collective projects. These include Chinese Educational Experience and the Global South; International Talent Development Plan for the Daxing Area of the Airport Economic Zone; AI and Innovation in Teaching and Research; The Belt and Road 2.0; International Communication and Interpretation of Chinese Modernization; Creativity, Evaluation Standards and Educational Equity; Vocational Education Going Global to Support Overseas Talent Development for Chinese Enterprises; How Chinese Companies Going Global Practice ESG: An African Regional Study; Facilitating Africa's Industrialization: Exploring China-Africa Cooperative Industrial Parks; China-Africa Energy and Minerals Cooperation and the Overseas Expansion of China's New Energy Vehicles; Workforce and Industrial Coordination: Talent Demand Analysis in Ethiopia and Egypt; Nigerian Perceptions of Chinese Culture; and Organizational Models and Performance Evaluation of International Science and Technology Human Resource Cooperation under New Conditions: A China-Africa Case Study.
Has been interviewed or commissioned to write for CGTN Television, CGTN Radio, CCTV-13, China Daily, People's Daily Overseas Edition and Global Times. Representative engagements include a CGTN Radio roundtable with the Lesotho Ambassador to China, Mapaballo Mile, on the state of China-Africa cooperation and the outlook for 2026; a featured video interview on CGTN's Talk Africa on how rural African communities drive their own revitalization; and contributions to China Media Group's Mutual Learning program on China-Africa cooperation, African industrialization and agricultural modernization. Awards and recognition: in 2025, received the Friend of Africa award within The Pride of Africa Asia Pacific Award from the African non-profit organization Appreciate Africa Network. In 2023, the case "People and Enterprises Growing Together: Chenguang Biotech's Support for Poverty Reduction in a Zambian Informal Settlement" was selected as a Best Poverty Reduction Case in the Fourth Global Poverty Reduction Case Collection, jointly organized by seven institutions including the International Poverty Reduction Center in China, the China Internet Information Center and the World Bank.
Board Member, Chinese Association for African Studies; Board Member, Chinese Association for African History Studies; Editorial Board Member, Vocation, Technology & Education; Member, Global Research Consortium on Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST); Member, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES); regularly invited to seminars and closed-door briefings on African affairs convened by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
