Xie Fuzhan | |
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谢伏瞻 | |
Communist Party Secretary of Henan | |
Assumed office March 2016 |
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Preceded by | Guo Gengmao |
Governor of Henan | |
In office April 2013 – April 2016 |
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Preceded by | Guo Gengmao |
Succeeded by | Chen Run'er |
Director of the National Bureau of Statistics of China | |
In office October 2006 – September 2008 |
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Preceded by | Qiu Xiaohua |
Succeeded by | Ma Jiantang |
Personal details | |
Born |
Tianmen, Hubei, China |
August 9, 1954
Political party | Communist Party of China |
Alma mater | Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
Xie Fuzhan (Chinese: ; born 9 August 1954) is an economist and politician of the People's Republic of China, who serves as Communist Party Secretary of Henan Province. Previously he served as the province's governor, and before that, the Director of China's National Bureau of Statistics and the State Council Research Office.
Xie has an accomplished academic career. He has published many articles in newspapers and journals, held a professorship at his alma mater Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and twice won China's Sun Yefang Economics Prize.
Xie Fuzhan was born in Tianmen, Hubei Province. After graduating from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of Wuhan in 1980, he worked as a reporter for the People's Daily 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 State Council of China.
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 visiting scholar at the economics department of Princeton University, and then completed an executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2006 he completed another executive program at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. From 1999 to 2006 Xie was the deputy director of the DRC.