"Record of Liu Guoguang's whirlwind"

Author: Liu Yiqing
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Publishing Date: 2006-05-01
Features: "The Liu Guoguang Whirlwind: An Authentic Record" is a stronger "whirlwind" that swept the nation following the publication of "The Lang Xianping Whirlwind: An Authentic Record." Both books were planned and published by the editorial committee of the "21st Century Popular Literature Series," under the general advisory of Wang Rensi, former Minister of the Propaganda Department, former Secretary-General of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Standing Committee member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. These two works can be considered sister publications with interconnected themes. The book takes the restoration of the dominant position of Marxism as its main thread, upholds the principle of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and letting a hundred schools of thought contend," seeking common ground while reserving differences, and ensures the fundamental interests of the people and unity and harmony as its prerequisites. It aims to correct the right direction of reform and opening-up by widely collecting representative writings from prominent figures across various fields, giving the book historical significance, theoretical authority, and readability.
Liu Guoguang was born on November 23, 1923, in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. From 1941 to 1946, he studied at the Department of Economics at the National Southwest Associated University in Kunming, Yunnan. After graduation, he entered the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Beijing (now Beijing), but soon transferred to the Department of Economics at Nankai University in Tianjin as a teaching assistant. In September 1948, he moved to the Social Research Institute of the Central Academy of Sciences in Nanjing as a research associate. In 1951, he was sent to the Moscow Economic Institute in the Soviet Union to study at the Department of National Economic Planning. He graduated in 1955 and received a doctorate in economics. Upon returning to China, he joined the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and held various positions, including research associate, researcher, academic secretary, head of a research office, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of the journal Economic Research, deputy director, and director. From 1981 to 1982, he concurrently served as the deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics. From 1982 to November 1993, he served as the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. During this period, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at the 12th and 13th National Congresses. Starting in November 1993, he served as a special consultant of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From 1993 to March 1998, he served as a standing committee member of the 8th National People's Congress. He concurrently held professorships at Peking University, Zhejiang University, Northeast University of Finance and Economics, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. In 1988, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Over the years, Liu Guoguang has participated in and led research, deliberation, and consultation on major topics related to China's economic development, macroeconomic management, and economic system reform. He is one of the most renowned and influential economists in China today. In 2005, he was awarded the "First Outstanding Contribution Award in Chinese Economics."