Profile: Guo Shuqing

Guo Shuqing, a doctoral research fellow, was born in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in August, 1956.

He studied philosophy at the Nankai University in Tianjin and Marxism and Leninism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1978 to 1985.

In 1986 he spent a year at Oxford's St. Antony's College as a visiting scholar.

Guo was deputy director of the former State Planning Commission's Economic Research Center and then a department leader and senior official of the former State Commission for Restructuring the Economy from 1988 to 1998.

He was elected vice governor of the impoverished southwestern province of Guizhou in July, 1998.

Guo became vice governor of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank and director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange in March 2001.

In December, 2003, he was elected chairman of the Central Huijin Investment Company Ltd., which has injected hefty funds into state-owned banks on behalf of the central government in a bailout package to reform the vital banking system.