Ma Jiantang

Secretary of Party Leadership Group (Minister), Senior Fellow, Development Research Center of the State Council

Dr. MA Jiantang, PhD in economics and senior research fellow, is Secretary of Party Leadership Group of the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) of People’s Republic of China.

Dr. Ma Jiantang graduated from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He authored Cyclical Fluctuation and Structural Change, Structure and Behavior: Studies on China’s Industrial Organization, Research on China’s Industrial Structure, Research on the Reform of State-owned Enterprises at the Turn of the Century, etc. In 1996, he won China’s top economics award-Sun Yefang Economics Prize, and was granted the title of Expert Making Outstanding Contributions by the State Council. Furthermore, in 2012, he received the China Economics Theory Innovation Award for his Theories on China’s Economic Restructuring.

Dr. Ma previously acted as Director-General of Macroeconomic Control Department of Development Research Center of the State Council, Director General of the Comprehensive Department of State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC) and Deputy Secretary-General of SETC, Deputy Secretary-General of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, Member of the Standing Committee of CPC Qinghai Provincial Committee and Vice Governor of Qinghai Provincial Government, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China (NBSC) and Commissioner of NBSC, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee of Chinese Academy of Governance (CAG) and Executive Vice President of CAG, and alternate member and member of the 18th CPC Central Committee.