Main work
With over 15 years of research and field experience dedicated to the Forest products market and trade, Prof. Su Haiying has an expertise in forestry foreign investment and green finance. She has spearheaded over 30 research and development projects in collaboration with eminent organizations like NFGA, DFID, WWF, EFI, and GEF. Totally 10 books and more than 40+ papers have been published as the key author.
Prof. Su Haiying is passionate about promoting overseas green investment by forestry enterprises. She has developed handbooks on overseas forestry investment and trade in various countries to encourage sustainable forest management practices among enterprises, with a keen emphasis on local environmental and community benefits.
Prof. Su Haiying's primary focus lies in fostering dialogue and exchanges on legal and sustainable supply chains between China and tropical timber-producing countries. She has made several trips to tropical timber-producing nations such as Gabon, Cameroon, Mozambique, Guyana, Peru, Malaysia, and Indonesia, conducting research on the international trade chain and supply chain of wood forest products between 2012 and 2023.
Prof. Su Haiying has been a part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Expert Group on Combating Illegal Logging and Related Trade (EGILAT) from 2013-2022. She chairs the preparation of APEC country guidance on timber legality and actively participates in the expert group's deliberation of annual priority policy issues. She is actively involved in and supports timber legality negotiations between China-South Korea, China-Russia, China-Canada, China-Australia. She contributes to the development and pilot of China's timber legality verification system.
Now she is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) and contributes to the CFC's deliberations on projects related to timber, coffee, soybean flavors, and more.
Key research projects
Study on Sustainable Commodity Supply Chain under Climate Change (2023-2024)
UK-China Cooperation Project: International Forestry Investment and Trade (InFIT)-Output 3 Promoting Chinese enterprises to carry out responsible overseas trade and investment practices (2019-2023/2014-2017)
Analysis of the Impact of EU's Zero-Deforestation Law on Chinese Wood Industry Enterprises' Supply Chain and Overseas Investment (2022-2023)
Eco-banking Research (2022-2023)
Research on "Belt and Road" Forestry Cooperation (2021-2022)
Risk Case Collection on Pulp and Paper Industry Supply Chain (2020-2020)
Research on the development of green forestry finance in China (2019 -2020)
Research on the Cooperation Mechanism of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) (2018-2020)
EU Experience Research on Incentivizing the Private Sector to Implement Sustainable Purchasing Policy for Forest Products Trade (2018-2019)
Research on China-Laos Timber Trade and Investment (2018-2019)
Published articles & books
Jiang Yeheng, Su Haiying*, The Status, Trend, and Global Position of China's Forestry Industry: An Anatomy Based on the Global Value Chain Paradigm. Forest. 2023(14)
Su Haiying, Management of Donated Funds to National Parks: International Experience and Its Inspiration. World Forestry Research. 2023,36(6)
Su Haiying, Hou Fangmiao*, Yang, Yixin. An assessment of the international competitivenessof China's forest products industry, Forest Policy and Economics[J], 2020, 119(10):1-8
Su Haiying, Han Zheng, Giessen, L. Policy Forum: Challenges and ways forward in Implementing "A Guide on Sustainable Overseas Forest Management and Utilization by Chinese Enterprises", Forest Policy and Economics, 2019(102):114-118
Su Haiying, Hou Fangmiao*, Analysis of the impact of China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain on carbon emissions, Int. J. Environment and Pollution [J], 2020(12)
Hou Fangmiao, Su Haiying*, The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on China's Carbon Emission. Sustainability, 2021, Vol.119(11)
Su Haiying, Jiang Yeheng*. International Practices in the Green Finance for Forestry and It's Inspiration. World Forestry Research, 2021, 34(4):1-7
Su Haiying, Chen Yong*. Forestry Development in Gabon and the Forestry Cooperation Prospect Between China and Gabon, World Forestry Research, 2018, 31(6): 76-81
Su Haiying, Han Zheng. A Study of Incentive Mechanism Implementation for the Guide on Overseas Forestry Investment, World Forestry Research[J], World Forestry Research, 2016, 29(6): 75-79
Jiang Yeheng, Su Haiying*, The Influence of U.S. Tariffs on China's Wooden Seat Exports-Based on Product-level Microeconometric Analysis, World Agriculture, 2021, 507(7): 69-78+96
SU Haiying. Practice and thinking of green credit supporting forestry development, Forestry Economics[J], 2017, 39(11): 87-92
Su Haiying. Potential impact of the Russian Log Act and policy recommendations, Forestry Economics, 2016, 38(04)：88-91
