Tianlei Huang

Research Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Tianlei Huang is a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He works with Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow Nicholas R. Lardy on issues related to the Chinese economy. Most recently, he was a graduate teaching assistant on Chinese and Japanese financial markets at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Before joining the Institute, Huang worked at the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies where he worked primarily on China-ASEAN economic relations and cross-Taiwan Strait relations. Huang's translation of former Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff's Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics in Chinese was published by the Central Compilation and Translation Press in 2017. Huang holds a master's degree in international economics and Southeast Asia studies from Johns Hopkins University SAIS and a master of laws degree in political science from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Huang is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese, and is proficient in Burmese.

This picture shows workers on a construction site in Shenmu, Shaanxi province, China, on 24 April 2023. (Wang Zhao/AFP)

Economy

China’s housing downturn: Household registration reform needed

By Tianlei Huang 19 Jul 2023

In China, policy easing in real estate continues even as calls for greater stimulus packages get louder. But to address the nub of the property downturn, says PIIE researcher Tianlei Huang, long-term challenges such as supply-demand imbalances and the discriminatory household registration system should be addressed.

In this file photo taken on 12 October 2022, people walk along a pedestrian street surrounded by shops and shopping malls in Shanghai, China. (Hector Retamal/AFP)

Economy

China's private sector has continued its rise against all odds

By Tianlei Huang , By Nicolas Véron 15 Nov 2022

Peterson Institute of International Economics researchers Tianlei Huang and Nicolas Véron analyse the seeming anomaly that an increasingly statist policy environment in China has not prevented a rapid rise of the private sector. While various factors have paused this rise, will the upward trajectory likely resume in President Xi’s third term?