Jiang Xiaojuan

Vice Chairman, Social Construction Committee, National People’s Congress; Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University Scholars

Dr. Jiang Xiaojuan is Professor and Dean of School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM) at Tsinghua University, and also serves as professor and research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). She is a Standing Committee Member of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Vice Chairperson of the NPC Social Construction Committee, taking charge of lawmaking, revision, enforcement, and supervision of social insurance, sports, protection of women's and children's rights and others. She was elected President of the Chinese Public Administration Society in 2019.

 She was a visiting scholar at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand from 1987 to 1988, and earned a PhD degree in Economics at the CASS in 1989. She has also served as Director and Party Secretary of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics at the CASS, Deputy Director of the Research Office of the State Council, Deputy-Secretary General of the State Council of the P.R.C.

 She worked in the State Council of China from 2004 to 2018, successively serving as deputy director and executive deputy director of the Research Office of the State Council. Her main tasks included coordinating relevant departments of the State Council in formulating major policies, issuing important documents, and drafting important speeches for the Premier of the State Council such as the "Report on the Work of the Government." After 2011, Dr. Jiang served as the deputy secretary-general of the State Council. Under the direct leadership of the Premier of the State Council and relevant vice premiers, she took charge of industry, education, science and technology, health, culture, sports, ethnic religion, women and children development, etc. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Sun Yefang Economic Science Award (The highest economics award in China), which she won three times, and the Fifth China Economic Theory Innovation Award.