Vice President: Mr. Wu Jie

He was born in Huhehaote of Inner Mongolia in December 1935. In 1960 he graduated from the Engineering Physics Department of the Leningrad Chemical and Industrial Academy of the former Soviet Union. He is a senior research fellow, professor and expert of systems science and systems philosophy.

From 1960 to 1980, he conducted research and taught in the Ministry of the Second Machinery Industry, Inner Mongolia and Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was the visiting scholar in California State University, Northridge. He was Vice Mayor of Chifeng of Inner Mongolia (1983-1985), Mayor of Baotou (1985-1989), Vice Provincial Governor of Shanxi (1989-1993), Vice Minister of SCRES and Head of the Institute of Economic System and Management (1993-1998), deputy to the Eighth National People’s Congress, member of the Environment and Resource Committee of the Eighth National People’s Congress, member of the Ninth National Committee of CPPCC. In March 1989, he was awarded the title of “National Extraordinary Leader of Environment Protection” by the State Council. He is the member of the Tenth National Committee of CPPCC, President of Society for Research on Deng Xiaoping Thought, President of China Society of Systematic Science, Vice President of China Society of Economic Reform, Vice Board Chairman of China Society of Soft Science, Vice President of China Society of Productive Forces, and adjunct professor of Beijing University and other 18 universities.

Major academic achievements:
He establishes the course of systems dialectics and journal of Research on Systems Dialectics and scientifically founds the philosophical theory of “One divides into multi-parts” and “Multi-parts combine into one”. He is the first one to put forward and set up the scientific system of Deng Xiaoping Thought, pointing out that the core of the Marxism and Deng Xiaoping Thought is wholism and initiating the research of the systems theory of the Marxism and Leninism. He points out that the basic law of the national economy is the law of whole effectiveness and the effective management way is the integral management, and establishing the socialist market economy should be based on the whole advance and whole range of reform, otherwise, single reform can only result in corruption and bureaucratism of low efficiency.

Major books:
Selection of Wu Jie (5 volumes), including On Systems Dialectics (already translated into English), On Whole Management, On Deng Xiaoping Thought (the best selling book in 1993 and already translated into English and Russian), On City Management and No Way Back; Inter-Ocean Dialogue cross-century (coauthor with H·Harken from Germany and E·Lazilau from America ); editor-in-chief of Systems Thought of the Marxism and Economic Globalization and Nation’s Whole Development.