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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.

Recent Career Data

2003—	Chairman, CPPCC, Subcommittee of Cultural and Historical Data
1998—2001	Director, Research Office of the State Council
1998—2003	Member, 9th Standing Committee of the NPC
1997—2002	Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee
1994—2000	Vice-President, Chinese Academy of Governance
1992—1997	Alternate Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee
1988—1993	Deputy Director, Research Office of the State Council
1988—1994	Vice-Minister, National Development and Reform Commission
1988—1994	Secretary-General, National Development and Reform Commission
1987—1988	Deputy Editor-in-Chief, People's Daily