Qiu Jun (1421-1495) was a politician, writer and economist during the Ming dynasty. He was born in

Qiongshan Qiongshan District, alternately romanized as Kiungshan, is one district in Haikou City, Hainan. History As Qiongzhou, formerly romanized as Kiungchow, the district was formerly a separate city which served as the center of Chinese administra ...

, Guangdong. During the reign of Hongzhi, he was appointed as the Minister of Revenue,

Grand Secretary The Grand Secretariat (; Manchu: ''dorgi yamun'') was nominally a coordinating agency but ''de facto'' the highest institution in the imperial government of the Chinese Ming dynasty. It first took shape after the Hongwu Emperor abolished the off ...

of the Wuying Hall. He developed

Zhen Dexiu Zhen Dexiu (; 1178 – 1235) was a Chinese politician and philosopher during the Southern Song dynasty. His Neo-Confucianist views were influential at court and together with his colleague Wei Liaoweng he was instrumental in making Neo-Confuciani ...

's work and is famous for his economics work, ''Complement to the Expanded Meaning of the

Great Learning The ''Great Learning'' or ''Daxue'' was one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism attributed to one of Confucius' disciples, Zengzi. The ''Great Learning'' had come from a chapter in the ''Book of Rites'' which formed one of the Five Classics. I ...

'' (''Daxue Yanyibu'').

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{{reflist People from Haikou Grand Secretaries of the Ming dynasty 15th-century Chinese writers Neo-Confucian scholars Chinese Confucianists 1421 births 1495 deaths