CHEN XIWEN

Mr. Chen Xiwen formerly held office as deputy head of the Central Leading Group for Rural Work and director of its working office, and still serves as a delegate to the 13th NPC and member of the NPC's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee.

Born in Shanghai in 1950, Mr. Chen was admitted to the Department of Agricultural Economics, Renmin University of China in 1978. After graduation, he worked in succession at the Institute of Agricultural Economics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the former Rural Development Research Center under the State Council, the Office of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs, and the Office of the Central Leading Group for Rural Work. Since the early 1980s he has been committed to theoretical and policy research on China's three rural issues - agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.

Mr. Chen is one of the major contributors in drafting some of the vital documents guiding rural reform and development that have been issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council since 1983. As leader of the drafting team, he participated in drafting the annual No.1 Central Document from 2004 to 2016, the reports delivered at the 17th and the 18th CPC National Congress, and the various decisions and recommendations issued at the plenary sessions of the CPC Central Committee.

Following in-depth research, Mr. Chen has published a series of treatises on the relationship between agriculture and the economy, the rural land system, agricultural management systems, national food security, farmers' income growth, rural industrialization, and urbanization. These publications, some produced in collaboration with other academics and some written solely by himself, have been awarded China's Sun Yefang Economic Science Award on four occasions. Mr. Chen has served as Distinguished Professor at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese Academy of Governance and Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, and China Agricultural University.