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Xinyi GUAN

Membership at VRLC (2022 October - )

When Xinyi joined VRLC in October 2022, she was in her first year majoring in Economics and Finance at HKU.

Research and Video Production:

She has researched and turned three newspaper article into videos. "The energy revolution in China" by Dr. Stephen Y. CHIU [ Original article ] [ Video (in English) ] "Turning the Tide on Gender Equality" by Dr. Maurice K.S. TSE [ Original article ] [ Video (in English) ] "U.S. monetary policy: 2023 Q2 review and outlook" by Dr. Cynthia Xiyue CAO and Dr. Chi Pui HO [ Original article ] [ Video (in English) ] [ Video (in Mandarin) ] "Hong Kong needs to speed up Trade Modernization" by Prof. Heiwai TANG [ Original article ] [ Video (in English) ]

Learning:

----- 2023 March ----- "Through further research into the field relative to my first video based on the article China's Energy Revolution, I gained practical knowledge in macroeconomics and learned many things that are outside the textbook but valuable along the way studying economics. For me, this experience opened the door to research, cultivated my ability to find data, as well as my interests in learning."

----- 2023 June ----- "One of the most important things I've learned from this project is that, when presenting statistics, you should stand in the audience's shoes instead of the writer's. Only by choosing the best type of chart, it can be more easily for people to get the information and meaning of it, such as trend and comparison behind the digits. I used to regard data as a result of research, but now I see that a good research uses data as a language and interprets it well."

----- 2023 July ----- "Researching into the US monetary policy is not only a practical application of the theories I learned in class, but also an important way to obtain an insight of real-world macroeconomics. Take two examples, I learned more macro indexes used to measure economic development apart from what was taught in lectures, such as PCE; I also got to know the detailed operation of quantitative easing. The project taught me that, when studying economics, it is critical to understand the logic and principle behind a policy and action, so that we could better predict the future tendency and make a prudent decision."

----- 2023 September ----- "From this project, I learned the importance of trade modernization and the basic components of digitalization measurements. When influencing an economy's development, policy is critical in that it serves as a guideline to the holistic process. While digitalization is the trend for the world to realize the leap in productivity improvement, economies should embrace chances and actively seek cooperation with others in the policy level, in order to contribute to the multilateral winning stage. Standing in the shoe of a researcher, we should combine the external factors like the trend, and internal factors such as economy's distinct characteristics together, to reach a more reasonable analytic conclusion."