Hao Xiang

The World and China Institute | Beijing, China

Xiang Hao is the Senior Analyst in the World and China Institute. She is also a research assistant at the Research Center for Contemporary China, Peking University. She is currently a Ph.D candidate at Peking University and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University and National Chengchi University. Since 2013, she participated in the implementation of PB projects in many different cities across China. (Beijing, Haikou, Nanchang, Soochow). These local governments take out a certain amount of funds from the public budget for people to vote on their own submit proposals. Her area of investigation concerns citizen participation in policymaking, with focus on government-led practices in budgeting, urban planning, and citizen initiatives. She also participated in Computer Assisted Telephone Interview program and several other face to face interview using GPS regional sampling in China.