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Biography

Gao Shangquan, male, Han nationality, was born in 1929.

Gao spent thirty years working with the Ministry of Agricultural Engineering and the Committee of National Engineering Industry. While there, he conducted economic policy research as part of the 1st Ministry of Machinery Industry.

In 1982, Gao joined the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System; he later rose to become the commission's deputy director. He then shifted to the State Council where he directed the Economic System Reform Project Office and was deputy director of the Housing Reform Leadership Group.

Gao has a long association with Chinese economic organizations. He was chairman of the Chinese Research Society for Restructuring Economic Systems, China Enterprises Reform and Development Society, and the China Reform Foundation. Gao also served as a member of the preparatory and preliminary working committee of the Hong Kong SAR.

Throughout his career, he has studied city, regional, and international economics as well as economic reform issues. He was a senior visiting scholar of the World Bank and was a visiting professor at Harvard University and Stanford University.

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