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Xie Fuzhan

Xie Fuzhan
谢伏瞻
Communist Party Secretary of Henan
Assumed office
March 2016
Preceded by Guo Gengmao
Governor of Henan
In office
April 2013 – April 2016
Preceded by Guo Gengmao
Succeeded by Chen Run'er
Director of the National Bureau of Statistics of China
In office
October 2006 – September 2008
Preceded by Qiu Xiaohua
Succeeded by Ma Jiantang
Personal details
Born (1954-08-09) August 9, 1954 (age 62)
Tianmen, Hubei, China
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.


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