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Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
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Revision History:

Biography Revised: 7/7/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Li Jingwen
Li Jingwen 李京文
Committee Member of the Academic Committee at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Director of the Economic and Administration Institute at Beijing Polytechnic University
Born: 1933

Biography

Li Jingwen, male, Han nationality, was born in 1933. He studied at Wuhan University from 1951 to 1952, the Russian Institute in 1952, and the Moscow Plekhanov Economics Institute and National Economics Institute from 1953 to 1958.

A well-known economist, Li spent the 1960s and the 1970s with the State Development Planning Commission and the Beijing Institute of Economy. In 1971, he joined the State Committee of Construction at the Ministry of Construction and remained there until 1985. That year, Li accepted a position at the Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

In his studies, Li has concentrated on technology economics. In the latter part of the 1970s, he proposed to reform the capital assets system – an idea that was adopted by the State Development Planning Commission. After presiding over the economic estimate research for the Three Gorges Project, he was awarded the 1st rank award of the Scientific and Technological Progress of the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense in 1992. He later served as the director of the prophase argumentation technology economy group of Jing-hu high-speed railway, from 1992 to 1994. Li's work on large-scale transportation projects won the 2nd rank national award for Scientific and Technological Progress in 1995.

The author of more than thirty books and three hundred articles, he is recognized as expert in his field by the Ministry of Personnel as well as the State Education, Science, Culture, and Public Health Committee. Li was a member of the 7th and 9th CPPCC and has consulted for the State Social Science Foundation, Beijing People's government expert consultant group as well as advising Beihai City, Zoushan City, Er'zhou City, and Longhai City.

Career Data

Director, Beijing Polytechnic University, Economics and Administration Institute Beijing Municipality
1998—2003 Member, 9th CPPCC, National Committee
1993—1998 Deputy, 8th NPC
1988—1993 Member, 7th CPPCC, National Committee
Academic Committee Member, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
1951—1952 Student, Wuhan University Hubei Province, Wuhan City


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