The
National Development and Reform Commission (
NDRC) (Chinese:国家发展和改革委员会 Pinyin:Guójiā Fāzhǎn hé Gǎigé Wěiyuánhuì), formerly
State Planning Commission and
State Development Planning Commission, is a
macroeconomicMacroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, and behavior of a national or regional economy as a whole. Along with microeconomics, macroeconomics is one of the two most general fields in economics. It is the study of the behavior and decision-making of entire...
management agency under the
Chinese State CouncilThe State Council , which is largely synonymous with the Central People's Government after 1954, is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the Premier and includes the heads of each governmental department and agency. There are about 50 members in...
, which has broad administrative and planning control over the
Chinese economyThe economy of the People's Republic of China is a rapidly developing and influential market economy. China is the third largest economy in the world after the US and Japan with a nominal GDP of US$4.4 trillion when measured in exchange-rate terms...
. Since 2008 the Commission has been headed by
Zhang PingZhang Ping is the current chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, a prominent department within the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Prior to his current position, he served as deputy secretary general of the State Council from 2006 to 2008.-Biography:Zhang was...
.
The NDRC's functions are to study and formulate policies for economic and social development, maintain the balance of economic development, and to guide restructuring of China's economic system.
The
National Development and Reform Commission (
NDRC) (Chinese:国家发展和改革委员会 Pinyin:Guójiā Fāzhǎn hé Gǎigé Wěiyuánhuì), formerly
State Planning Commission and
State Development Planning Commission, is a
macroeconomicMacroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, and behavior of a national or regional economy as a whole. Along with microeconomics, macroeconomics is one of the two most general fields in economics. It is the study of the behavior and decision-making of entire...
management agency under the
Chinese State CouncilThe State Council , which is largely synonymous with the Central People's Government after 1954, is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the Premier and includes the heads of each governmental department and agency. There are about 50 members in...
, which has broad administrative and planning control over the
Chinese economyThe economy of the People's Republic of China is a rapidly developing and influential market economy. China is the third largest economy in the world after the US and Japan with a nominal GDP of US$4.4 trillion when measured in exchange-rate terms...
. Since 2008 the Commission has been headed by
Zhang PingZhang Ping is the current chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, a prominent department within the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Prior to his current position, he served as deputy secretary general of the State Council from 2006 to 2008.-Biography:Zhang was...
.
The NDRC's functions are to study and formulate policies for economic and social development, maintain the balance of economic development, and to guide restructuring of China's economic system. The NDRC has twenty-six functional departments/bureaus/offices with an authorized staff size of 890 civil servants.
History
The NDRC is a successor to the State Planning Commission (SPC), which had managed China's
centrally planned economyA planned economy or directed economy is an economic system in which the state or workers' councils manage the economy. It is an economic system in which the central government makes all decisions on the production and consumption of goods and services...
since 1952. In 1998, the SPC was renamed as the State Development Planning Commission (SDPC), which then merged with the State Council Office for Restructuring the Economic System (SCORES) and part of the State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC) in 2003. The restructured organization was then merged into a newly created NDRC, which gained greater responsibility and power in overseeing China's economic development.
Principal functions
The principal functions of the NDRC are:
- To formulate and implement macroeconomic policies;
- To monitor and adjust the performance of the national economy;
- To examine and approve major construction projects;
- To guide and promote economic restructuring;
- To coordinate the readjustment of China's industrial structure with development of agriculture and rural economy;
- To formulate plans for the development of China's energy sector and manage national oil reserves;
- To promote the Western Region Development Program, which calls for China's economic growth to include the poorer Western provinces;
- To submit a national economic plan to the National People's Congress
The National People's Congress , abbreviated NPC , is the highest state body and only legislative house in the People's Republic of China. The National People's Congress is held in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China...
on behalf of the State Council.
Also, recently the NDRC has been placed in charge of China's strategic petroleum reserves.
List of Chairmen
- Gao Gang
Gao Gang was a Chinese Communist political figure. A native of Hengshan, Shaanxi Province, he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1926...
(高岗): November 1952-August 1954
- Li Fuchun (李富春): September 1954-June 1970
- Yu Qiuli
Yu Qiuli , was vice prime minister of China from 1975 until 1982 and was a member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo, a group of 19 to 25 people who oversee the Communist Party of China...
(余秋里): June 1970-August 1980
- Yao Yilin
Yao Yilin was a deputy Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1988, and the country's First Vice Premier from 1988 to 1993. He was born in Hong Kong in 1917, and spent his early years in Guichi, Chizhou, Anhui. Yao joined the Communist Party of China in 1935...
(姚依林): August 1980-June 1983
- Song Ping
Song Ping was an official in the Communist Party of China and is considered a member of the Second Generation of Chinese Leadership.-Biography:...
(宋平): June 1983-June 1987
- Yao Yilin
Yao Yilin was a deputy Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1988, and the country's First Vice Premier from 1988 to 1993. He was born in Hong Kong in 1917, and spent his early years in Guichi, Chizhou, Anhui. Yao joined the Communist Party of China in 1935...
(姚依林): June 1987-December 1989
- Zou Jiahua (邹家华): December 1989-March 1993
- Chen Jinhua (陈锦华): March 1993-March 1998
- Zeng Peiyan
Zeng Peiyan is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 2002 to 2007 and was a Vice-premier from 2003 to 2008.-Early life and career:...
(曾培炎): March 1998-March 2003
- Ma Kai
Ma Kai is a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He is currently a State Councilor and Secretary General of the State Council.-Biography:...
(马凯): March 2003-March 2008
- Zhang Ping
Zhang Ping is the current chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, a prominent department within the State Council of the People's Republic of China. Prior to his current position, he served as deputy secretary general of the State Council from 2006 to 2008.-Biography:Zhang was...
(张平): March 2008 - incumbent
National Coordination Committee on Climate Change
National Coordination Committee on Climate Change, approved by the State Council, assumed office in October , 2003. Ma Kai, Chairman of NDRC is posted as the chairman of the Committee.
National Energy Bureau
China’s energy management is being transferred from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to the new National Energy Bureau (NEB; 国家能源局), with hopes that this will reform China’s highly dispersed energy management. The new bureau will integrate the NDRC's functions on energy management, the functions of the National Energy Leading Group and the nuclear power management of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
Structure
- General Office
- Office of Policy Studies
- Department of Development Planning
- Department of National Economy
- Bureau of Economic Operations (Inter-Ministerial Office of the Alleviation of Enterprise Burden under the State Council)
- Department of Economic System Reform
- Department of Fixed Assets Investment
- Department of Industrial Policies
- Department of Foreign Capital Utilization
- Department of Regional Economy
- Department of Rural Economy
- Bureau of Energy (National Oil Reserve Office)
- Department of Transportation
- Department of Industry (Office of Rare Earth, Office of Salt Industry Administration, National Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Office)
- Department of High-Tech Industry
- Department of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
- Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection (Office of National Coordination Committee for Climate Change)
- Department of Social Development
- Department of Trade
- Department of Fiscal and Financial Affairs
- Department of Price
- Department of Price Supervision
- Department of Employment and Income Distribution
- Department of Laws and Regulations
- Department of International Cooperation
- Department of Personnel
- The NDRC Party Committee
- Office of National Economic Mobilization
- Office of Key Project Inspectors
- State Bureau of Material Reserve
- State Grain Administration
- State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (China National Tobacco Corporation)
- Office of the Leading Group for Western Region Development of the State Council
- Office of the Leading Group for Revitalizing Northeast China and Other Old Industrial Bases of the State Council
- Office of the National Energy Leading Group
See also
- State Information Center
The State Information Center is a Chinese government policy making think tank affiliated to the National Development and Reform Commission established in 1987. The State Information Center sponsors the China Economic Information Network, a national information network that provides broad...
- Economy of the People's Republic of China
The economy of the People's Republic of China is a rapidly developing and influential market economy. China is the third largest economy in the world after the US and Japan with a nominal GDP of US$4.4 trillion when measured in exchange-rate terms...
- :Category:Energy in China
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