President: Mr. Gao Shangquan

He was born in September 1929 in the Jiading County of Shanghai and graduated from the department of economics in the Shanghai St Jones University in 1952. He is a professor and senior researcher.

From 1982, he served as Division Chief and Deputy Director-general of SCRES and Head of China Economic System Restructuring Institute. He was Vice Minister of SCRES from 1985 to 1993 and was the member of the Eighth and Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). As the president of CRES starting from 1999, he is also the member of the Committee for Development Policy of UN, chairman of the board of directors of China Reform Foundation, president of China Society for Enterprise Reform and Development, president of China (Hainan) Institute for Reform and Development, as well as professor and doctoral tutor of Beijing University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University and Nankai University, and president of the Industrial and Commercial School of Zhejiang University.

He has written quite a number of books during his 20 years’ work in reform. His major books published home and abroad include: Two Decades of Reform in China, Second Revolution, China’s Economic Reform, On China’s Market Economy, Market Economy and China’s Reform, China’s Economic System Reform, Collection of Gao Shangquan, On System Innovation, etc, altogether 15 monographs. He is the editor-in-chief of over 30 economic books with wide influence on reform and development.