Ma Jiantang, male, is of Han nationality. He was born in 1958, attended Shandong University and Nankai University, and received a doctorate from the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988.
Ma began working at the development research center of the State Council in 1988, and in 1996 he became a researcher and director of the general department of the State Economic and Trade Commission. Ma Jiantang has been a consulate of the Beijing Municipal Government, and a part-time professor at Beijing Normal University, Renmin University, and Shandong University. He has won notable prizes in his field, including the Sun Yefang Economic Science Award.
He served as deputy secretary of the State-owned Assets Supervision
Administration Commission from 2003-2008. From 2008 to 2015 he was head of the National Bureau of Statistics. In 2014 he became a Member of 18th CPC Central Committee. He was named Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Governance in 2015.