Ye Xiaowen, male, Han nationality, is a native of Guiyang, Guizhou Province. He was born in 1950. Ye Xiaowen has excelled as an academician of philosophy and sociology. In the middle 1990s, Ye served as director of the Bureau of Religious Affairs under the state council. He has also been active in the China Sociology Society and the Chinese Society of Human Rights.
He is currently an alternate member of the 17th CPC Central Committee and Vice-President and Secretary of Leading Party Group of the Central Institute of Socialism.