(FILE)

China's esteemed economist Fan Gang was awarded by the Royal Roads University in Canada for his achievements in economic research and contribution to the deepening of trade between China and Canada.

Fan, 58, has been granted the honorary doctor of laws degree by the Canadian university for his instrumental role and leadership in China's economy. He got his doctoral degree in economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in 1988 and has worked for the Institute of Economics under the CASS since then. Fan is a professor at Peking University and the Graduate School of the CASS, mainly studying theoretical economics and China's macro economy. He has published many papers in internationally prestigious academic journals. He is also director of the National Economic Research Institute at the China Reform Foundation and president of the foundation.