Gui Shiyong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. He was born in 1935. He graduated from the Planned Economy Department of People's University of China in 1956 and in the same year joined the CPC.
Apart from a brief stint with the Chinese Academy of Sciencess, Gui has been affiliated with state commissions since the 1970s. From 1977 to 1987, he was the director of the Policy Research Office of the State Planning Commission. He served concurrently as the director of the Institute of Economics of the State Planning Commission.
In the late 1980s, Gui was vice-minister and secretary general of the State Planning Commission. In 1998, he became director of the Research Office of the State Council.
Gui is a standing committee Member of the 9th CPPCC National Committee.