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

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and governor of

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province. Before that, he was the Director of China's National Bureau of Statistics and the

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. Xie has an accomplished academic career. He has published many articles in newspapers and journals, held a professorship at his alma mater

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, and twice won China's

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Economics Prize.

Biography

Xie Fuzhan was born in

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, Hubei. After graduating from

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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

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. In 2006 he completed another executive program at the

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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

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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

. In March 2013 he was appointed

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in central China, and was elected Governor by the Henan Provincial Congress in April. On 26 March 2016, he was elevated to

of Henan, replacing

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. 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

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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

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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

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. 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

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

References

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