MA Zhongyu is the deputy director of Ningxia Provicial Commission of Development and Reform (NPCDR). His job at NPCDR is mainly focused on the making decisions for Ningxia provical industrial development policies, reginal development planning and investment policies. All his decisions is directed to setting Ningxia's industries on the way towards sustainable development. At the same time he works as a professor at Environmental School of Renmin University of China, engaged in research on recycle economy, ecology, resource management, sustainable urban and rural development.
He also worked at the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management at the University of Edinburgh (UK) from 1993 to 1995. He has published over 50 papers and 15 books, both in English and Chinese. He has attended and organized numerous national and international conferences, including International Workshop of Poverty and Enviromwnt in Beijing in 2004; the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto in 2003; World Water Symposium in Stockholm in 2003; 7th Session of UNCSD on Sustainable Tourism in New York, 1999; International Symposium of Sustainable Agricultural Technology, Beijing, 1997; System-Oriented Research in Agriculture and Rural Development, France, 1994; and Integrated Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture, Beijing, 1993, etc.
Ma Zhongyu has organized and directed several research teams and completed more than 20 research projects in the areas of resource management, carrying capacity assessment, poverty alleviation and rural sustainable development,sustainable development of agriculture, and ecotourism and natural heritage conservation.
Currently, as an adviser to vice Premier Zeng Peiyan at state concile, he is developing the policy options of recycle economy development in China since China's economy develop very fast but its mineral resources and other industrial raw materials can not support its expected development objectives based on the conventional development pattern. Therefore, no other choices is available for achieving china's economy objectives, but recycle economy is only one choice for china to achieve higher resource use efficiency and mitigate environmental pressure due to its higher growth rate. Ma Zhongyu's research also covers the impact of soil erosion on crop yield in Loess Plateau of China, ecotourism development in Jiuzhaigou (a Tibetan populated region), water recycle economy and manament in Yellow River Catchment,etc.
Ma Zhongyu obtained his Ph.D. in agricultural science in 1992 from Northwestern Agricultural University in China. In the period between 1996 and 2000, He worked in Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences as the leading scientist in the area of rural sustainable development. In 2000 he was transferred to Renmin University of China to establish the Environmental School and works in the school. In 2004 He is selected as the deputy director of Ningxia Provicial Commission of Development and Reform.
