Zou Jiayi ( zh, s=邹加怡, p=Zōu Jiāyí; born June 1963) is a Chinese politician, a current vice minister of the

Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China () is the cabinet-level executive department of the State Council which administers macroeconomic policies and the annual budget. It also handles fiscal policy, economic regulations a ...

. Zou is a director of

China Investment Corporation China Investment Corporation (CIC) (Chinese: 中国投资有限责任公司; pinyin: ''zhōngguó tóuzī yǒuxiàn zérèn gōngsī'') is a sovereign wealth fund that manages part of the People's Republic of China's foreign exchange reserves. C ...

Early life

Zou was born in June 1963 in

Wuxi Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

province. She joined the

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in 1984. She attended the

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as an undergraduate. She holds a

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from the Institute of World Economy & Politics of the

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Chinese research institute and think tank. The institution is the premier comprehensive national academic research organization in the People's Republic of China for the study in the fields of ...

Career

Zou began working for the Ministry of Finance in 1988. From 1994 to 1996, Zou worked as a deputy chief of the department of the Ministry of Finance responsible for

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-related affairs, and from 1996 to 1998, as an advisor to China's World Bank Executive Board Office. In 1999, pointing to the

1997 Asian financial crisis The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia and Southeast Asia beginning in July 1997 and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion. However, the recovery in 1998–1 ...

and

Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...

, Zou was one of a number of Chinese analysts who expressed skepticism about American financial hegemony and cautioned China to make sure it protected its best interests and did not sacrifice too much in attempts to join the World Trade Organization. From 1998 to 2015, Zou continued to work for the Ministry of Finance, eventually becoming director of its International Economic Relations Department in 2014. In 2015, she briefly served as a member of the Ministry's internal Communist Party committee and assistant minister of finance before transferring to a post in the

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, serving until 2017, when she was again promoted to Vice Minister of the

Ministry of Supervision The Ministry of Supervision of the People's Republic of China (MOS) was a Cabinet-level department of the State Council responsible for maintaining an efficient, disciplined, clean and honest government, and educate public servants about their d ...

. In March 2018 she became a member of the leadership committee of the newly formed

National Supervisory Commission National Supervisory Commission of the People's Republic of China is the highest anti-corruption agency of the People's Republic of China, at the same administrative ranking as Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate. Its opera ...

, but was then brought back to the Ministry of Finance in June as one of its Vice Ministers and a Party committee member. She was China's representative to 15th anniversary commemoration of the United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2018. In June 2019, Zou was named to the 14-member monetary policy advisory committee of the

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References

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