Xie Fuzhan (; born 9 August 1954) is a Chinese economist and politician who served as the President of the

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and the Communist Party Secretary and governor of Henan. Before that, he was the Director of China's National Bureau of Statistics and the State Council Research Office. Xie has an accomplished academic career. He has published many articles in newspapers and journals, held a professorship at his alma mater

Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public university in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First-Cl ...

, and twice won China's Sun Yefang Economics Prize.

Biography

Xie Fuzhan was born in Tianmen, Hubei. After graduating from

Wuhan Wuhan; is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the List of cities in China by population, eighth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine National cent ...

in 1980, he worked as a reporter for the ''

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'' for three years. He then went back to school, obtaining a master's degree in engineering from the Machinery Industry Automation Research Institute in 1986. Afterwards he joined the Development Research Center (DRC) of the

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. Xie spent most of the next two decades at the DRC, where he led or participated in numerous research projects. He also went abroad to further his studies. From 1991 to 1992 Xie was a

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at the economics department of

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, and then completed an executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at

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. In 2006 he completed another executive program at the Judge Business School of the

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. From 1999 to 2006 Xie was the deputy director of the DRC. In October 2006 Xie Fuzhan was appointed commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), replacing Qiu Xiaohua who had been fired for corruption. He held the position until September 2008. As commissioner he advocated new statistical methods for improving quality of the data. He openly refused to make forecasts for China's economy for fear that any such forecast could affect the data collection. In June 2008 Xie was appointed director of the State Council Research Office. In March 2013 he was appointed

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Henan Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Lu ...

in central China, and was elected Governor by the Henan Provincial Congress in April. On 26 March 2016, he was elevated to Party Secretary of Henan, replacing Guo Gengmao. In March 2018, Xie was appointed the President of the

. Xie was a member of the

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of the 17th

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, and is a full member of the 18th and 19th Central Committees.

Academic career

Xie Fuzhan is a prominent economist who has won several major awards. He is a prolific writer whose articles have been published at many newspapers and academic journals. His major research areas include

macroeconomic Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. This includes regional, national, and global economies. Macroeconomists study topics such as output/ GDP ...

policies, economic development, and enterprise reform. He worked on a number of significant research projects in collaboration with the

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, the

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, and the

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. He has been an advisor to the

, a professor and doctoral student advisor at his alma mater

, and an adjunct faculty member at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

. In 2007 he was one of the three vice chairmen of the

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Statistical Commission.

Selected works

*''Real Estate: Strategic Development and Countermeasures'' (2000) *''Fiscal Control and Reform'' (2001) *''Thirty Key Issues Related to Further Reform'' (2003) *''Road to Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics'' (2004) *''China Real Estate Taxation System'' (2005) *''China Real Estate Taxation System Proposition'' (2006)

Awards

* Sun Yefang Economics Prize (1991 and 2001) *National Science and Technology Award (1996) *State Council of China: Exceptional Contribution Specialist

References

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