Recently, the “Management World” published a paper written by professor Guo Lei from our school, named “Whether the Government Regulatory Reform Has Promoted Public Welfare ---Empirical Evidence from the Panel Data of Water Industry Dynamics in China's Inter-Provincial Cities” Besides, the professor Zhou Qin published a paper on "Economic Research Journal", whose title is “Inequity of Equalization—Theoretical and Empirical Analysis on Beneficial Equity of the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance in China”. The publication of these two papers has achieved a breakthrough that academic achievements of professors from our school are published for the first time in the highest-level academic journals in the field of philosophy and social science research.

Professor Lei Guo’s paper “Whether the Government Regulatory Reform Has Promoted Public Welfare ---Empirical Evidence from the Panel Data of Water Industry Dynamics in China's Inter-Provincial Cities” studies and discusses whether the government regulatory reform has promoted public welfare. From the viewpoint of public welfare improvement, she examined the effects of China's government regulatory reforms using the inter-provincial panel data during 2004-2012 and the Logit model. Taking the urban water industry as an example, the study distilled the public welfare indicators of the urban water industry and quantified the impact of urban water regulatory reforms on public welfare. Professor Lei Guo explored the relationship between urban water regulatory reform and public welfare by matching the data of urban water regulation reform with public welfare indicators, which has enriched the research content of urban water regulatory reforms and provided new management thoughts for policy makers to implement reforms.

Professor Qin Zhou’ paper “Inequity of Equalization—Theoretical and Empirical Analysis on Beneficial Equity of the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance in China” evaluates the benefit equalities of Urban Residents' Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) which covers more than 250 million urban populations in China. From the theoretical model, he finds that, for the equalized designed social health insurance which is equally financed and reimbursed among the insured, the lower income groups will obtain less reimbursement than higher income groups. Meanwhile, applying data from URBMI survey from year 2007 to 2011, professor Qin Zhou uses the Two Part Model, and obtains the similar results with the theoretical prediction of the unequal benefits among income groups. Eventually, he gets the conclusion that equalized designed social health insurance would bring the lower income groups to an inferior position. And the lower income groups are always with poorer health, so such health insurance will also intensify health inequities. This study provides new evidence on reforming China's health insurance system policies.

It is a great satisfaction to our school that we can publish papers in the highest -level academic journals with significant influence in the field of philosophy and social science research. This not only improves the core competitiveness of our college in the public administration disciplines among similar universities, but also spurs the call that promotes our college to construct a world-class university and first-level disciplines and realize the leap-forward development of public administration disciplines.

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