National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) 国家发展和改革委员会

Address: 38 Yuetan Nanjie, Xicheng Qu, Beijing 100824 | Website: www.ndrc.gov.cn

NDRC, successor to the former State Development Planning Commission, directs industry policies, price reform, fixed-asset investment, and western development. It is also responsible for collecting, processing, and providing economic information to other government departments and enterprises. In March 2003, NDRC absorbed many macroeconomic and approval operations performed by the former State Economic and Trade Commission and many functions of the former State Council Office for Economic Restructuring.

Director

Xu Shaoshi 徐绍史

Deputy Directors and Deputy Director-Level Officials

Xie Zhenhua 解振华 Zhu Zhixin 朱之鑫 Liu He 刘鹤 (Deputy Director) (Deputy Director) (Deputy Director) Responsible for the Resource Conservation and Assists Director Xu in all aspects of his work and Portfolio not yet announced. Environmental Protection Department, Climate responsible for the National Economy, Social Change Response Department, the National Energy Development, and Personnel departments, the State Conservation Center, Chinese Communist Party Information Center, as well as the State Bureau of (CCP) Committee, and Retired Cadre Affairs Bureau. Material Reserves. Wu Xinxiong 吴新雄 Xu Xianping 徐宪平 Zhang Xiaoqiang 张晓强 (Deputy Director) (Deputy Director) (Deputy Director) Director of the National Energy Administration. Responsible for the Basic Industry and Employment Responsible for the Foreign Investment and Outbound and Income Distribution departments; assists Director Investment Utilization, High-Tech Industry, Economic Xu in managing the Development Planning Trade, and Foreign Affairs departments. Department.

Du Ying 杜鹰 Mu Hong 穆虹 Lian Weiliang 连维良 (Deputy Director) (Deputy Director) (Deputy Director) Responsible for the Regional Economy, Western Responsible for the General Office, Fixed-Asset Responsible for the Economic System Reform and Development, Northeast Revitalization, Rural Investment Department, and Special Office of Key Public Finance and Monetary Economics departments Economy, and Laws and Regulations departments. Project Supervision.

Liu Xiaobin 刘晓滨 Hu Zucai 胡祖才 (Head of Discipline Inspection) (Deputy Director) Responsible for Industry Coordination, the Price and Price Supervision and Anti-Monopoly departments.

Secretary General and Assistant Secretary Generals

Li Pumin 李朴民 Meng Xiangyue 孟祥岳 Zhao Jiarong 赵家荣 (Secretary General) (Assistant Secretary General) (Assistant Secretary General) Assists Director Xu in the drafting of important Assists Deputy Director Mu in NDRC logistics as well Assists Deputy Director Xie on resource conservation, documents, assists Deputy Director Zhu in aspects of as infrastructure management-related work. environmental protection, and climate change work. economic coordination work, and coordinates major events and important work within NDRC. As the NDRC’s spokesman. Ren Long 任珑 Li Yang 李扬 (Assistant Secretary General) (Assistant Secretary General) Assists Deputy Director Du on laws and regulations Assists Deputy Directors Xu Xianping and Lian work, and assists relevant leaders in the monitoring Weiliang , and assists with economic coordination, of public opinion and NDRC’s publications. resource management, transportation, and industrial work.

Department Responsibilities

General Office (办公厅) Policy Studies Office (政策研究室) Development Planning (发展规划司) Oversees routine administrative work; organizes Drafts major policies; releases information; and Recommends strategies for national economic and social meetings; provides secretarial and information organizes studies on economic and social development and productivity allocation; proposes policies for services; manages budget and finances; and development reform, economic opening, and medium- and long-term economic development, economic handles complaints and visits. international economics; manage publications. aggregate balancing, and structural readjustments; proposes development strategies and key policy measures for urbanization; and coordinates economic, social, and regional development plans.

National Economy (国民经济综合司) Economic Operations and Coordination Economic System Reform (经济体制综合改革司) Studies and analyzes domestic and foreign Bureau (经济运行调节局) Conducts studies on important reform and opening issues; economic conditions; provides macroeconomic Monitors industry and transportation sector drafts comprehensive economic reform plans and coordinates forecasts and early warnings and recommends performance; coordinates resolution of industry specialized reforms; and makes recommendations for countermeasures when necessary; drafts annual and transportation sector economic operation promoting economic system reform and improving the plans for national economic and social problems; organizes the allocation and socialist market economic system. development; formulates macroeconomic transportation of coal, gas, and other important objectives related to employment, price stability, resources; recommends uses for state material and international balance of payments; reserves; and manages state pharmaceutical coordinates plans for using national strategic reserves. material reserves, and researches the production and sales for coal and crude oil. Fixed-Asset Investment (固定资产投资司) Foreign Investment and Outbound Regional Economy (地区经济司) Monitors and analyzes all fixed-asset investment Investment Utilization (利用外资和境外投资司) Drafts regional economic development plans and activities; studies and proposes scale, structure, Studies international capital dynamics and recommends policies for land improvement and development; and funding sources for fixed-asset investment monitors foreign capital use in China; controls the guides economic development and relief programs in border and regulatory policies; makes recommendations total size of foreign debts; approves projects with areas and ethnic minority regions; and assists in formulating for reforming the investment and financing investment scales that exceed limits; drafts plans for water resource conservation, ecological systems; approves state-funded construction and industry catalogues that guide foreign investment improvements, and environmental protection plans. major construction projects, and drafts in cooperation with relevant agencies; and infrastructure construction plans for urban area. arranges overseas resource development and investment projects involving large amounts of foreign currency.

Western Development (西部开发司) Northeast Revitalization (东北振兴司) Rural Economy (农村经济司) Drafts and organizes strategic plans and polices Drafts and organizes strategic plans and polices Studies major agricultural and rural economic development for promoting western China’s development and for revitalizing northeastern China; coordinates the issues; makes recommendations for rural economic coordinates the implementation of key programs implementation of projects related to promoting the development and reform; and coordinates development plans related to infrastructure, environmental protection, transformation of old industrial areas and and policies for agriculture, forestry, water conservation, and and project distribution in western regions. sustainable development for resource-based cities. meteorology. Facilitates cooperation between Western area and Eastern coastal area.

Basic Industry (基础产业司) Industry Coordination (产业协调司) High-Tech Industry (高技术产业司) Coordinates energy and transportation Analyzes industry and services sector issues; Studies high-tech industry and technology trends; proposes development planning consistent with the macro organizes and drafts overall industry policies; strategies, policies, and construction projects related to economy and social development; analyzes the coordinates industry and services development development of new technology industries and technological energy and transportation sectors; and proposes plans; promotes major equipment and construction improvement; recommends policies that support the policy solutions for major basic industry issues. of major industrial bases; drafts strategies and development of key technologies; organizes demonstration major policies in the services sector; approves projects and research and development of equipment that is development plans for major corporations; guides vital to the national economy; organizes and promotes the development of service sectors across the technological innovation and the integration of industry, country; and draft policies for industrial and service academia, and research; and promotes the formation of new sectors. economic sectors. Resource Conservation and Environmental Climate Change Response (应对气候变化司) Social Development (State Council Medical System Protection (资源节约和环境保护司) Analyzes the impact of climate change on Reform Office) (社会发展司) (国务院医改办公室) Studies and resolves major problems related to economic and social development; organizes and Proposes strategies for social development; formulates and the coordinated development of the economy, drafts strategies and policies for dealing with coordinates development plans and policies related to society, environment, and resources; proposes climate change issues; manages China’s population, culture, education, public health, sports, policies and plans for resource conservation and participation in the United Nations Framework broadcasting, television and film, tourism, law enforcement, use; helps create environmental protection plans; Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); and civil affairs; and resolves social development and social coordinates work related to environmental participates in international negotiations on climate reform problems. protection; promotes clean production; coordinates change; oversees China’s involvement with the the implementation of demonstration projects and UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism; and the popularization of new products, technologies, manages the work of the national leading group for and equipment; and undertakes the routine work climate change, energy reserves, and emissions of the Office of National Coordination Committee reductions. for Climate Change. Employment and Income Distribution Economic Trade (经济贸易司) Fiscal and Financial Affairs (财政金融司) (就业和收入分配司) Monitors both domestic and international markets Studies fiscal and monetary policies, including capital balance Studies employment, income distribution, and and maintains the aggregate balance of important and financial systems reform; proposes direct financing social security; proposes employment plans and commodities; formulates plans for managing the development strategies and policy recommendations; policies that increase employment, adjust income total volume of import and export of important participates in decision-making on the overall volume, distribution, and improve the coordinated agricultural products, industrial products, and raw structure, and direction of securities issuance; and promotes development of social security and economy; materials; supervises and adjusts implementation the development of investment and venture capital funds. organizes the formulation and verification of of these plans; manages state reserves of reform plans for employment and income important materials and commodities including distribution; and coordinates resolution of relevant grain, cotton, and sugar; proposes strategies for

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Price (价格司) Price Supervision and Anti-Monopoly (价格监 Laws and Regulations (法规司) Forecasts price changes and recommends 督检查与反垄断局) Drafts relevant laws, administrative regulations, and rules objectives, policies, and reform plans for price Manages price supervision; organizes price following NPC’s requests; studies the implementation of adjustment; sets prices for important commodities; inspections; handles cases of illegal activity related relevant laws, administrative regulations, and rules; and formulates policies and implements charging fees; to commodity price and fee collection and handles administrative reconsideration and responses to proposes scope, principles, and measures of price violations of price-related laws by central- administrative lawsuits. management; sets and adjusts prices and fees government agencies, provincial governments, and administered by the central government; and state-owned enterprises under the direct organizes investigations into costs of major supervision of the central government; drafts agricultural products. administrative laws and price supervision regulations; and oversees reconsideration cases and price-violation penalties. Foreign Affairs (外事司) Personnel (人事司) Special Office of Key Project Supervision Promotes cooperation among the NDRC and Manages NDRC’s personnel affairs. (重大项目稽察特派员办公室) international organizations, foreign government Organizes and conducts inspections of major construction agencies, and foreign institutions; assists other projects; tracks industry and local government performance in departments in promoting major international implementing national investment policies and regulations; cooperative projects; carries out studies on the supervises the arrangement of national fiscal budgets used world economy; and conducts routine NDRC for construction and proposes resolutions for violations. foreign affairs work.

CCP Committee (机关党委) Retired Officials Bureau (离退休干部局) State Reserve Bureau (国家物资储备局) Guides NDRC ideology. Handles retired cadre affairs. Formulates national strategic reserves strategies and plans; oversees standards, target setting, and daily management of national strategic material reserves; oversees national reserve security; and coordinates education, training, and records processes for the national reserve system.

Discipline Inspection (中纪委、监察部驻委纪检组、监察局) Reviews NDRC and CCP implementation of policy decisions and ensures that operations conform to laws, regulations, and State Council decisions; investigates NDRC leadership and staff accused of violating these policies; and assists with anti- corruption work.

Other Important Centers/Committees under NDRC NDRC Academic Committee (发改委学术委员 Drug Pricing Evaluation Center (药品价格评审 Price Certification Center (价格认证中心) 会) 中心) Evaluates and certifies national prices and adjudicates final Reviews outstanding academic achievements; Reviews national medicine prices; proposes price pricing. grants awards for research excellence; and management regulations; and researches medicine promotes academic communication. price variations between foreign and domestic markets.

National Energy Conservation Center National Investment Projects Approval Center (国家节能中心) (国家投资项目评审中心) Researches regulation and policymaking; oversees Reviews investment proposals for national energy efficiency assessments for fixed-asset investment projects; evaluates national investment investments; promotes new-energy conservation projects; and gets involved into the management of technologies, products, and systems; provides national investment projects. advocacy, training, information, and advisory services on energy conservation; manages energy efficiency labeling; and coordinates international cooperation on energy conservation.

Major Administrations under NDRC Supervision National Energy Administration (国家能源局) State Administration of Grain (国家粮食局) Coordinates national energy policy and incorporates functions of the former Oversees grain circulation, provides industry guidance, and manages central grain NDRC Energy Bureau, State Council Leading Group on Energy. reserves.

Note: Information accurate as of June 2013.