Li Wei

President (Minister), Development Research Center of the State Council Chair

From March 1988 to 1991, Mr. Li Wei worked successively as a secretary in Shanghai Municipal Government andShanghai Municipal Party Committee. He became a secretary at the General Office of the State Council in April 1991. He was appointed as Director of the Premier’s Office in March 1998. Later inJune, he alsobegan to serveas Vice President and member of the CPC Leading Group in the Research Office of the State Council. Mr. Li becameVice Chairman andmember of the Party Committee of China Banking Regulatory Commission in March 2003.In October 2005, he was appointed as Vice Chairman and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. He became the Secretary of the CPC Leading Group and Vice President of Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council in July 2010, and then became President and Deputy Secretary of the CPC Leading Group of DRC in April 2011. He assumed concurrent posts as the Chairman of the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) in January 2017 and as the President of the Center for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD) in April 2017.

Mr. Lihas long engaged himself in thepractical work and policy research related to macroeconomy,financial regulation, reforms of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), management of state-owned property rights of enterprises, policy-basedbankruptcy of SOEs, management of SOEs’investmentin financial derivatives, and informatizationof enterprises.When working as the  personin charge intheministries, he led the national restructuring of rural credit cooperatives during 2003-2005 and the implementation of the2005-2008 Plan for Policy-based Bankruptcy of SOEs. Mr. Li has published more than 300 papers and articles on economic and social issuesin major Chinese and international newspapers andjournals. He co-authored, as the principal one, Financial Instruments and Insurance Accounting.He was the chief editorof Research on Key Areas and AdvancementMechanism of Reform, and China’s New-Type Urbanization: Paths, Models and Policies. He has been participating in drafting keydocuments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, formulatingkey policy documents in relevant ministries, and has been leadinga series of major research projects on reform, people’s livelihood, urbanization, China’s energy strategyand macroeconomic analysis.

Mr. Li’scurrent research focuses on policies related to macro economy,energy strategies, collaborative development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, new-type urbanization, reform of SOEs, China’s high-level think tanks as well asthird-party policy evaluation. Hereceived, among others,a Special Prize andaFirst Prize of China Development Research Award.