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Lunqu Yuan (Chinese: 袁伦渠; pinyin: Yuán Lúnqú; born 26 December 1940) is a Chinese labor economist, former Counselor of The State Council in China, and professor at Beijing Jiaotong University. His major research focuses are labor economics, social security, human resource management, etc.

= Early Life and Education = Lunqu Yuan was born on 26 December 1940 in Jinxiang County, Shandong province. He attended Beijing No.9 High school, and graduated from Capital University of Economics and Business (formerly known as Beijing Economic University) in 1964 with undergraduate degree and major in labor economics.

= Career = After graduation, he worked at Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in China until the year of 1971. In 1980s, Xiaoping Deng emphasized the need for "government-sponsored oversea education" (公派留学) As a result, Yuan was selected by the State Education Commission to study in the Department of Economics of Moscow National School of Economics (now the Moscow University of Economics), and studied labor economics. During his time abroad, he introduced to his Soviet counterparts the theory and practice of the reform of the labor wage system since China's reform and opening up, and gained the attention of those foreign scholars. In 1991, Yuan was promoted to be a professor. With the theories and knowledge he learned at his Alma mater, he established two master's programs in labor economics and a doctoral program in social security at Beijing Jiaotong University, and established the Department of Labor Economics to fill the gaps in the disciplines at Beijing Jiaotong University. He works as a professor and doctoral supervisor in Beijing Jiaotong University till now. He was hired as a Counselor of The State Council in China in 2004, and rehired in 2009.

For the past 40 years, Yuan has been working on teaching and research in the fields of labor economics, social security, human resource management. He has published more than 10 monographs and translated more than 80 papers. His monographs include Chinese Labor Economy History, Modern Labor Organization -- Macro and Micro Theory, Contemporary China Series -- Contemporary Chinese Workers' Wages and Welfare and Social Insurance Volume (co-authored), New China Wage History Draft (co-authored). He is the editor of university textbooks "Introduction to Labor Economics", "Basic Knowledge of Labor Wages", "Introduction to Social Insurance" and "Labor Economics", and has translated "Labor Economics", "Labor Sociology" of Democratic Germany and so on. In 2002, the textbook Labor Economics edited by Professor Yuan won the Beijing Quality Textbook Award.

=Major Publications=

Labour Economics (Chinese Edition; first edition published in 2007)
This book is written on the background of the socialist market economy system, combining the general principles of modern labor economics with the concrete practice of the market economy, in the analysis of the framework and methods, prominent operation analysis, pay attention to the system analysis.

Labour Economics (4th Edition; published in 2014)

The preparation of this book is based on the background of the socialist market economy system, combining the general principles of modern labor economics with the concrete practice of our market economy, and paying attention to the system analysis to reflect the basic characteristics of the labor market operation. The book is divided into five parts and 11 chapters, the first part Outlines the research objects and methods of labor economics, the second part makes a micro analysis of the phenomena of the labor market, the third part is a macro analysis, the fourth part is a system analysis, the fifth part discusses labor relations and its organizational form, the current situation and development trend of China's labor relations. The second edition of this book basically retains the content system and knowledge structure of the original textbook. Only some chapters are adjusted, such as merging the second and third chapters to make the logical structure more rigorous. According to the requirements of the scientific Outlook on Development and the new progress of the theoretical policy, some contents are added or deleted, such as the "learning objective" part is supplemented, and some repeated parts are deleted to make it more close to the reality of China; The individual charts and formulas have been corrected. During the revision process, we carefully read through the book, scrutinized every chapter and section, corrected individual errors and missing sentences, and carefully checked the data and every formula, chart and model in the book.

Labour Economics (5th Edition; published in 2017)

Published by Dongbei University of Finance and Economics Press in 2002, this book is widely used in universities and higher education as textbook. It has been published in four editions, with a total of 10 printings. In response to the demands of readers and publishing houses, the editor revised the fourth edition again and decided to produce the fifth edition to meet the needs of readers. In the process of revision, the editor carefully read the fourth edition of the book, the book of 1.3, namely "the formation and development of labor economics", to rewrite the content of the upper limit of the working age. The old data in the book has been updated, the charts have been redrawn, some paragraphs have been deleted, some repealed laws and regulations have been deleted, and some textual errors have been corrected.

Labour Economics (6th Edition; published in 2021)

This textbook is written on the background of socialist market economy system, combining the general principles of modern labor economics with the concrete practice of our market economy, and reflecting the basic characteristics and operating mechanism of labor market comprehensively from different aspects and perspectives of micro-analysis, macro-analysis and system analysis. The book is divided into 11 chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction, summarizing the research objects and methods of labor economics, so that readers have a preliminary understanding of the outline of the book. Chapter 2 to Chapter 7 is the micro analysis of labor economics, which is the foundation and core of modern mainstream labor economics. Among them, Chapter 2 to Chapter 4 elaborated labor supply, labor demand and the basic theory of labor market equilibrium determined by the two, Chapter 5 introduced the human capital theory is a deepening of the labor supply theory, chapter 6 and chapter 7 discussed the wage determination under different labor market conditions. Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 belong to the macroscopic analysis of labor economics, mainly discussing the relationship between employment, unemployment and macroeconomic changes. Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 belong to the institutional analysis of labor economics, and respectively discuss the government's macro-control of the labor market, labor relations and its adjustment, the status quo and development trend of China's labor relations. In addition, at the end of each chapter, "Summary of this chapter" and "key terms" are written to summarize the content of this chapter, and "basic training" is set up for readers' reference and learning.

History of China's Labor Economics (Chinese Edition; published in 1990)
This book is divided into two parts: recent era and modern era. The recent part tells the history of labor economy from 1840 to 1949. The modern section is the history of labor economy from 1949 to 1985.

==Xin Zhongguo gong zi shi gao (Chinese Edition; published in 1986; co-authored with Qidong Zhuang and Jianli Li) == China Finance and Economics Press (中国财政经济出版社): Xinhua Bookstore, Beijing Publishing House.

=Honors and Award= 2002, Beijing Quality Textbook Award 2018，The 12th Five-Year plan textbooks for undergraduate higher education of ministry of Education

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