Xie An

Title: Professor / Ph.D. supervisor

Email: xa@tsinghua.edu.cn

Courses Taught:

“Three Rural Issues” in China

Special Topics on New Rural Development

Special Topics on Contemporary Chinese Economic Reform

Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, etc.

Education Background:

1991: Master of Economics, Nankai University

2003: Ph.D. in Law, Tsinghua University

2006: Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics, Seoul National University, South Korea

2008: Advanced Studies Program, Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Professional Experience:

1995: Promoted to Associate Professor

2002: Promoted to Professor

Conducted academic exchanges and field studies in Russia, the UK, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Cuba, and the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions

Aug 2005–Aug 2006: Visiting Professor, School of Economics, Seoul National University, South Korea

Academic Affiliations:

Deputy Director, Center for Urbanization and Rural-Urban Integration, Tsinghua University

Research Fellow, Institute for National Governance and Global Governance (National High-End Think Tank), Tsinghua University

Member of the Expert Guidance Committee, Tsinghua Rural Revitalization Workstation

Committee Member and Deputy Secretary-General, Enterprise Strategy Expert Committee, Chinese Association of Development Strategy

Committee Member, Agricultural Expert Committee, Chinese Association of Development Strategy

Specially Appointed Expert, Agricultural Economics and Technology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Management Science

Council Member, Chinese Rural Development Society

Member of the Teaching Steering Committee under the Ministry of Education

Core Member of a National-Level Teaching Team

Research Areas:

“Three Rural Issues” (Agriculture, Rural Areas, Farmers), Contemporary Chinese Economy

Academic Achievements:

Led over 10 key projects funded by the State Council Research Office, National Social Science Fund (Key/General), Beijing Social Science Fund, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, etc.

Published academic monographs including: Rural Land Shareholding Cooperative System: Exploring Collective Land Ownership Forms for Agricultural Modernization (Jilin People’s Publishing House, 2001); Innovating “Three Rural Issues” Work Mechanisms: A Unique Approach (Tsinghua University Press, 2013); Solving “Three Rural Issues”: Research on Major Practical Problems (People’s Publishing House, 2018); Migrant Worker Citizenship: Individual Choice and Social Integration (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2024).

Authored over 100 articles in prominent domestic and international publications such as People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Studies on Marxism, and Issues in Agricultural Economy. Multiple articles were fully reprinted by Xinhua Digest.

Published policy commentaries and interviews in Internal Reference Briefings (issued to ministerial/provincial leaders) commissioned by Xinhua News Agency.

Provided policy recommendations on “Three Rural Issues,” urbanization, poverty governance, and economic reform to central and local governments, receiving high-level attention and written endorsements from central leadership.