Vice President: Mr. Fan Gang

　　
He was born in Beijing in September 1953, graduated from the Economic Department of Hubei University in 1982 and got the Master’s Degree from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988. He is a senior research fellow, professor and the National Outstanding Young & Middle-aged Expert.

He worked in the farm of Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps and went to Weichang County of Hubei in 1975. In 1978 he was enrolled into the Political Economics Department of the Economic Department of Hubei University and entered the Economic Department of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to study the Western Economics in 1982. He stayed in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University of USA as a visiting scholar (1985-1987).
He got Ph. D. in economics and started to work in the Economic Research Institute of CASS in 1988. He was conferred "Sun-yefang Award for Outstanding Economic Thesis" in 1991. He was Director of Economic Research Journal (1992—1993), the doctoral tutor of CASS in 1993 and Deputy Director of Institute of Economics (1994-1995). He is a Vice President of CSER, Secretary General of CRF and Head of the National Economic Research Institute.

The recent research fields are macro-economics and systematic economics. He is entrusted to conduct research and offer consultations and suggestions on economic and policy problems to governmental agencies and local governments. He is the economic consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP, OECD and other international organizations, has been invited to give lectures, attend academic meetings and conduct cooperative research by many countries and published quite a few English essays in international economic magazines. His opinions on China’s economy are often quoted by domestic and foreign newspapers, magazines and TVs.

Main works: Macroeconomic Analysis of Public Ownership, Comparison and Synthesis of Three Approaches in Contemporary Economics, Market Mechanism and Economic Efficiency, Approach to Reform: An Economic Analysis of Economic Reform, Political Economy of China’s Reform.
Main essays: On Economy, Collection of Fan Gang, Grey Market Theory and On Reform process.